From: piir@... (Todd Gardner)
Date: 2004-06-14T08:43:38+09:00
Subject: Re: How to read a .csv file into a 2D array?

Actually this is a tab delimited file, here is the .csv.

6/10/2004,-44.87,4INKJETS.COM 888-321-2552 CA
6/8/2004,-107.26,SAFEWAY STORE00014837 SAN JOSE CA
6/7/2004,-24.95,DR *REGSOFT.COM Regsoft.com GA
6/3/2004,114.96,ONLINE PAYMENT
5/28/2004,214.99,ONLINE PAYMENT
5/27/2004,-114.96,SAFEWAY STORE00014837 SAN JOSE CA
5/24/2004,-214.99,NEWEGG COMPUTERS 800-390-1119 CA
3/9/2004,-40,TQ PHONE ADVANCE - CA

How can I do this more elegantly?

ary = []
fi = File.open("test1.csv","r")
fo = File.open("test1.out","w")
fi.each { |line|
        a = line.strip.split(',')
        ary << a
	fo.puts line
}
#~ # test print-out of one arrayrow
i=0
1.times do
  puts ary[i]
  i+=1
end

fi.close
fo.close

Thanks again for listening to the newbie question!

Todd