From: Adam Teale <ateale@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T21:28:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie: working with a text file and converting to xml

doh! Sorry guys!

Peter - thanks for the ARGV tips!

I think i have Paul's script going using the ARGV
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#!/usr/bin/ruby -w

data = File.read(ARGV[0])

output = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?>\n"

data.each do |line|
  timecode,subtitle = line.strip.split("\t")
  xml =
"<item><timecode>#{timecode}</timecode><subtitle>#{subtitle}</subtitle></item>"
  output += xml + "\n"
end

File.open("output.xml","w") { |f| f.write output }
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However it only outputs the first line from my txt file:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<item><timecode>00:00:30:13</timecode><subtitle>Swayambhunath Temple: 
building started 460AD
00:00:42:21</subtitle></item>
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Apologies for my newbieness!

Cheers guys!

Adam




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