From: Mark Van Holstyn <mvette13@...>
Date: 2006-09-09T12:03:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing a tab delimited file with ruby csv?

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Take a look at the faster csv library

On 9/8/06, Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz> wrote:
>
> Julio Capote wrote:
>
> > I've been scouring the internet for hours looking for a good tutorial on
> > how to parse a tab delimited file with ruby's CSV library, the most I
> > know is that the library does in fact support tabs as the delimiter, I'd
> > really appricieate it if someone can post a link to a tutorial or a
> > quick code sample detailing how to tell csv to use tabs as a delimiter.
>
> For a case like this, there's really no point using the CSV library. If
> tabs
> are used exclusively as delimiters and do not appear in the data, and if
> each line is terminated with a linefeed, parsing such a file is very, very
> easy with Ruby.
>
> File.open("filename").each do |record|
>    record.split("\t").each do |field|
>       field.chomp!
>       # do something here with each field
>    end
> end
>
> > Thanks!
>
> Any time. :)
>
> --
> Paul Lutus
> http://www.arachnoid.com
>
>


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