From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-10-27T22:37:38+09:00
Subject: Re: reading variables in a file

On 27/10/06, Ooo Grec <ogrecio@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm thinking of migrating from Fortran to Ruby. Do you think i should go
> ahead??
> First problem i have.
> How to read a file with several fields? This means:
> Imagine a file:
> Peter4 1990
> Sam 3 1980
> Grac6 1991
>
> I would like to read for each line:name, order and year (3 variables per
> line). How can i do this? and how can i write them into a file??
> Thank you in advance.
>
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 File.open(file) do |f|
  f.each_line do |line|
    name,order,year = *line.split
  end
 end

Farrel