From: Richard Harris <richardh06@...>
Date: 2007-12-13T04:07:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Creating multiple objects in loops

Basically it's what I mentioned in my second post (3rd one down). 
Reading in a text file, parsing it and storing it so I can retrieve it 
later. I have sorted the reading in and parsing, it's just the best way 
of storing the information.

Text File
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ID: 1, entry1               # Can have multiple ID's
Name: Richard
Age: 20
Address: 123 Some Road      # Can have multiple lines of address, not
fixed
Address: Some City
Address: Some Country
ID: 2
Name: Richard
Age: 20
Address: 123 Some Road
Address: Some City
Address: Some Country
ID: 3
Name: Richard
Age: 20
Address: 123 Some Road
Address: Some City
Address: Some Country
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The text file is in this format but can have multiple id's, and multiple 
addresses. Also it can have a different amount of fields so one entry 
might not have an age for example. When it reads in the file it has to 
then store the entries in a hash for example so all the info below the 
ID: bit is stored together.

e.g. contacts{{"ID"=>{"1","entry1"},"Name"=>"Richard","Address"=>{"123 
Some Road","some City","Some 
Country"}},{"ID"=>{"2"},"Name"=>"Richard","Address"=>{"123 Some 
Road","some City","Some Country"}}}

or something similar, along those lines. So I can say I want the address 
from the contacts hash where ID equals 1.

The thing is I have tried this and can't seem to get it to work at all. 
any thoughts on how to go about it or another way.

Cheers for this

R
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