From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2006-09-27T01:44:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's equivalent of PHP explode

On Sep 26, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Paul Lutus wrote:

> As to the second, read an .ini file and break it down by line and by
> name/value pairs (not tested):
>
> data = File.read("filename.ini")
>
> my_hash = {}
>
> data.each do |line|
>   key,value = line.split("=")
>   my_hash[key] = value
> end

No need to slurp a file so we can process it line by line.  Also, the  
equals-in-value problem is just one more argument to split():

ini = Hash.new

File.foreach("file_name.ini") do |line|
   key, value = line.split("=", 2)
   ini[key]   = value
end

James Edward Gray II