From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2007-03-08T00:56:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Can someone point me in the right direction? Pipe Delimited Files & Hashes...

On 3/7/07, Samantha <rubygeekgirl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If I go through the hash, I'll probably need to assign each field in the
> file a key, and then populate it.  I'm having a hard time figuring this out.

Do the hash first, since that will give you a good feel for how things
work, but if you put this into actual production, I'd consider using
the ArrayFields library:

http://www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/arrayfields/arrayfields-3.6.0/README

It's a useful tool to have in your kit

martin