From: MonkeeSage <MonkeeSage@...>
Date: 2007-11-25T21:15:02+09:00
Subject: Re: extract consecutive lines of data

def input_matrix(file)
  File.open(file) { |f|
    f.readlines.collect { |line|
      line = line.chomp
      if line.empty?
        then nil
        else line.split
      end
    }.compact.transpose
  }
end

p input_matrix(ARGV[0])

^ Composes matrix from first file given on command line, ignoring
blank lines in file.

Regards,
Jordan