From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-09-14T01:54:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Sets, uniqueness not unique.

Hi --

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Hugh Sasse wrote:

> I have been splitting a comma separated values file, and putting
> some of the values into an Student class, simply a collection of strings,
> so that I can build a database table from them:
[...]
>          picture, coll_status, full_desc = record.split(/\s*\|\s*/)

I notice you mentioned comma separation but you're splitting on a
pipe.  I don't know if this is related to the problem, but I thought
I'd flag it just in case.

Can you provide a couple of sample lines of data?


David

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David A. Black
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