From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2007-12-07T01:10:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Capturing STDOUT from a system call (POSIX) into an array

On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:38:35 -0500, Venks wrote:

> Thanks for your quick reply. I realize that you don't even need to use
> split. What I am missing is how to create a 2 dimensional array with
> each line contents in an array assuming that they are separated by a
> COMMA.
> 
> Let me be more specific. Assume that we have a file under /tmp/test.txt
> with the following contents.
> 
> aaa, 10, test1
> bbb, 20, test2
> ccc, 30, test3
> ddd, 40, test4
> 
> I want to create a 2 dimensional array with each line being an array.
> 
> lines = `cat /tmp/test.txt` will create a single dimensional array by
> default.

`cat /tmp/test.txt` will create a single string.

require 'csv'
nested_arrays=CSV.parse(`cat /tmp/test.txt`)

--Ken

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Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/