Question

I am trying to create a ruby script that loads 2 .sql files and removes all strings that begin with ‘AUTO_INCREMENT=’
There are multiple occurrences of this in my .sql files and all I want is them to be removed from both files.
Thanks for any help or input as I am new to ruby and decided to give it a try.

Answer 1

Given the right regexp (the one below might not be the most correct given the syntax), and the answer given there to a similar question, it is rather straightforward to put a script together:

file_names = ['file1.sql', 'file2.sql']

file_names.each do |file_name|
  text = File.read(file_name)
  File.open(file_name, 'wb') do 
    |file| 
    file.write(text.gsub(/\s*AUTO_INCREMENT\s*(\=\s*[0-9]+)?/, "")) 
  end
end