From: Gareth Clews <notesoncircumscribingthesky@...>
Date: 2006-06-19T05:15:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby in the sky with diamonds

Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> Gareth Clews wrote:
>>  1. Say I have 5 files which just contains arrays, hashes or a mixture 
>> of both and I want to let somebody choose one of them  [...]
>>  then I want ruby/irb to output the hashes/arrays contained in the 
>> files, like the cat or less commands with bash, how do I go about this?!
> 
> Do you mean you're storing data in ruby arrays and hashes? You might
> want to take a look at YAML[1]. Are the file names static, and is there
> a fixed amount of files?


Yeah, there are a fixed number of files with static file names and 
essentially each file is just a text file with the text being arrays and 
hashes.

Cheers for the help guys (especially YAML and where to look for the 
help)
I nearly got put off by the guy who didn't leave his name...

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