From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-12-02T11:10:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Labelled text file parsing...

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

How is this file created?  It looks very much like YAML, and Ruby ships 
with a YAML parser, so if you have any say over the file format, make it 
valid YAML.

Something like this:


Apple :
   Color: Red
   Peel: Yes
   Has Core: Yes

Orange :
  Color: Orange
  Peel: Yes
  Has Core: No



James



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