From: "JeremyWoertink@..." <JeremyWoertink@...>
Date: 2007-10-23T09:35:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing to a file help

HAHA, i'm dumb.. sorry, I forgot that using split returns an array, so
I was appending an array to another one. WOW.... time to lay off the
VB for a while and get my head back in some ruby.


OMG.....


~Jeremy

On Oct 22, 5:24 pm, "JeremyWoert...@gmail.com"
<JeremyWoert...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, so it seems that it is not splitting the line into an array. so
> what looks to be my array0-6 is actually just array[0]. So, my next
> question is how do I split a line by tabs?
>
> I was using array << line.split("\t"), but that isn't working.
>
> Ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> ~Jeremy
>
> On Oct 22, 5:08 pm, "JeremyWoert...@gmail.com"
>
> <JeremyWoert...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to read 1 file then create another file from that 1. My
> > problem I am having is that my file is not being formated the same way
> > I am telling it. So for example I have
>
> > line_a = %{#{i.to_s.rjust(6, "0")}|#{array[0]}\|#{array[1]} #{array[2]}
> > \|#{array[3]}\|#{array[4]}|#{array[5]}|#{array[6]} #{array[7]}|
> > #{array[8]}|\n}
>
> > out_file.write(line_a)
>
> > the output is
>
> > 000001|array0array1array2array3array4array5array6
> > | |||| ||
>
> > so basically my pipes and spaces are being appended to the end of my
> > string after the "\n"
>
> > any ideas?
>
> > ~Jeremy