From: Johnathan Smith <stu_09@...>
Date: 2007-12-06T05:28:05+09:00
Subject: Re: hash

hi,

thanks, i've got it to print out the hash
although I'm getting a wierd output where its taking the first letter 
off the surname e.g:

>ruby main.rb
3
{"ref1"=>["Book", "ittle, S R"], "ref2"=>["Journal", "mith, J"]

can you see in my code where im going wrong?
also, is it possible to print the different refrences on new lines?

ill provide my code below
thanks

#
#
  File.open('reference.txt').each do |line|
    if line =~ /^tag:/i
      $linecount += 1
    end
  end
    puts $linecount
#
#
#
  File.open('reference.txt') { | handle |tags = 
handle.read.split("\n\n")
    for tag in tags
      key, type, author = tag.split("\n")
      database[key[5..-1]] = [type[6..-1], author[9..-1]]
    end
  }
  p database
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