From: "baptiste AuguiƩ" <ba208@...>
Date: 2007-11-25T22:24:26+09:00
Subject: Re: extract consecutive lines of data

Thanks, this didn't work either (the data file contains lines of text  
before and after the data).
I've eventually figured a way playing with different bits of code I  
found:


> # extract space separated numbers from lines 5 to 9 in 'data.txt',
> # ignoring header and footer text lines

> current = []
>
> File.foreach('data.txt') do |line|
>  if ($. == 5) ..   ($. == 9)
>          current << line.scan(/\S+/).map! {|x| x.to_f}
> end
> end
> p current


Best wishes,

baptiste

On 25 Nov 2007, at 12:15, MonkeeSage wrote:

> 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
>

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