From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T00:39:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Spliting input at blank line

On Sep 25, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Arfon Smith wrote:

> I'm trying to read in a file with blocks of text separated by blank
> lines.  How do I go about spliting the input file using the blank  
> lines
> as delimiters?

If blank lines are regular:

   File.foreach(fname, "\n\n") do |block|
     # ... do something with block.chomp
   end

Otherwise slurp the entire file and

   blocks = contents.split(/\n\n+/)

-- fxn