From: Jeff Smick <rails_lists@...>
Date: 2005-12-02T11:05:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Labelled text file parsing...

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An easier way to do this might be to use YAML (http://www.yaml.org)  
which is built into Ruby now.
Though, if you'd like this to be more of a project some very simple  
RegEx work and running through the text line by line wouldn't be too  
difficult.


On Dec 1, 2005, at 5:57 PM, CBlair1986 wrote:

> Hi. What I'd like to do is to take a file like so:
> ---
> Apple
> Color: Red
> Peel: Yes
> Has Core: Yes
>
> Orange
> Color: Orange
> Peel: Yes
> Has Core: No
> ---
> and go through it, line by line, assigning the 'Apple' and 'Orange'
> lines to a name attribute on different hashes, and then using the name
> before the colons such as 'Color' and 'Peel' as keys for the  
> respective
> values.
>
> I'm just asking for a bit of help and guidance, as I'm still not very
> keen on using regular expressions that comfortably and all.
>
> Thanks to anyone who helps!
>
>

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