From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2007-12-29T04:05:42+09:00
Subject: Re: How to jump over the first line in a file? (newbie)

Alle venerdì 28 dicembre 2007, Mark Toth ha scritto:
> I have this code:
>
>  file = "filename.txt"
>     File.open(file) do |sFile|
>     while line = sFile.gets
>         row = line.split("\t")
>       a_product = Product.new(
>
>         :sku => row[0] ,
>         :name => row[1] ,
>         :price => row[2] ,
>
>       a_product.save
>       end
>     end
>
> What if I want to jump over the first line of the file so it won´t be
> imported?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mark

A possibility is to do a call to sFile.gets before the while cycle. This way, 
the first line of the file is read but not used.

Stefano