From: Johnathan Smith <stu_09@...>
Date: 2007-12-07T21:18:57+09:00
Subject: printing on new lines

hello

iv written a class which prints a a number of hashes of refrences

however it all prints on one line. What i was wondering was it is
possible to print each reference on a different line.

Any help would be much appreciated
my code is below

thanks

 $linecount = 0

  database = {}



  opts.each do |opt, arg|
    case opt
      when '--style'
         require arg
      when '--database'

  File.open(arg) { | handle |
  last_tag = nil

  handle.each { | line |

  m = line.match(/^(\w+):\s*([\w+,\s]+)$/i)

    if m # if m is a match (i.e., not nil)

      if m[1] == 'Tag' # adds a key to the hash

        last_tag = m[2].chomp

        database[last_tag] = {} # makes a subhash as the value

      else

        database[last_tag][m[1]] = m[2].chomp

      end

    end

    }

  }

    end
  end


  print "Number of References: ", database.length, "\n" # prints number
of references

  print "Hash Contents: ", database.inspect, "\n" # prints hash contents
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