Yes it does - good point, but the sigil-tastic snippet in the parent reads the whole file into an array, too - it's just harder to tell. Plus the parent snippe

Yes it does - good point, but the sigil-tastic snippet in the parent reads the whole file into an array, too - it's just harder to tell. Plus the parent snippet is not Ruby 1.9 compatible. Anyways, my version was just to illustrate that sysadmin scripting in Ruby does not have illegible.