From: vasudevram <vasudevram@...>
Date: 2006-09-10T01:30:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing a tab delimited file with ruby csv?


Julio Capote wrote:
> Wow, cool! I didnt know you could do that. This is by far the most
> helpful forum ive attended in a while. I have a tab delimited file that
> has a bunch of fields separated by tabs in each line, I figure I would
> need a multi-dimensional array to store the respective fields of every
> line, no?
>
> --

If you can manage with reading one line of fields in at a time, do
something with that line, and then discard it, you don't need a
multi-dimensional array.

You only need such an array if you want to do computation that involves
more than one line at a time.

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