From: daz <dooby@...10.karoo.co.uk>
Date: 2005-12-06T04:22:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Labelled text file parsing...


William James wrote:
>
> table = {}
> ARGF.each { |line|  line.strip!
>   next if line == ""
>   fields = line.split( /: +/ )
>   if fields.size == 1
>     $fruit = fields.first
>     table[$fruit] = {}
>   else
>     table[$fruit][fields.first] = fields.last
>   end
> }
>


OK, I saw your $fruit rationale after removing $ ;)

Here's a variation:

#---------------------------------------------------
 table = {}; fruit = nil

 IO.foreach('fruit.txt') do |line|
   k,v = line.strip.split(/: +/)
   k or next
   v and table[fruit][k] = v or table[fruit=k] = {}
 end
#---------------------------------------------------


daz