From: Samantha <rubygeekgirl@...>
Date: 2007-03-08T01:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Can someone point me in the right direction? Pipe Delimited Files & Hashes...

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> Let me try giving you this little hint and see if it's enough:
>
> >> cat, sub, des = "Books|Programming|A fun book about Ruby".split("|")
> => ["Books", "Programming", "A fun book about Ruby"]
> >> cat
> => "Books"
> >> sub
> => "Programming"
> >> des
> => "A fun book about Ruby"
>
> Don't be shy if you need more help!
>
Thank you!  I really appreciate it. :) 
Again, I'll have to dig through and figure things out.  Apparently I 
need another cup of coffee this morning for my synapses to fire properly.
>> If someone could point me in the right direction, of possible 
>> libraries that would help or the such, I'd love to go read there and 
>> study on it and try to figure it out.  Not asking for answers, just 
>> asking for resources. :)
>
> The standard CSV library will do the parsing for you, but this case 
> looks very simple so you probably don't need it.  However, if the 
> first row of the file has the field names, it might be worth looking 
> at FasterCSV which will build the Hashes for you:
Thanks!  The first row does not have field names, however, I'm sure I 
could add them.

Thanks again, James - this community is always so helpful!
>
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/fastercsv/
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> James Edward Gray II
>
>
>


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