From: Vasco Andrade e Silva <vascoas@...>
Date: 2007-07-02T11:03:44+09:00
Subject: Re: How to import text file and split it up by lines

Al Cholic wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Im attempting to analyze a text file, but having trouble splitting it up
> into lines (into an array that indexes each line).  Then I would like to
> print every line.
> 
> Here is what I got:
> 
> f = File.open("/Users/john/Desktop/text.txt")
> 
> f_lines = f.split("\n")
> 
> puts f_lines
> 
> 
> And here is the error Im getting:
> NoMethodError: private method ‘split’ called for
> #<File:/Users/john/Desktop/text.txt>
> 
> 
> Dont know why this isnt working.  Should be simple enough...
> 
> Can someone help please?
Hi,

you forgot to 'read' file.

f = File.open("/Users/john/Desktop/text.txt")

f_lines = f.read.split("\n")

puts f_lines

Note: you have also 'each_line' in IO, IOString, String, etc.

Vasco Andrade e Silva

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