From: Vell <lovell.mcilwain@...>
Date: 2008-02-06T01:39:57+09:00
Subject: Re: String scanning woes :(

On Feb 5, 6:40 am, William James <w_a_x_...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Feb 4, 6:50 pm, Vell <lovell.mcilw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > emails = File.open("/users/lem/desktop/test/
> > POCs_DNB.txt","r").readlines.map! {|x| x.chomp}
> > email.scan(/\S+/)
>
> First you say "emails"; then you say "email".
> This is not code that will run.
>
> Didn't you copy and paste?  Don't tell us that you
> retyped the code because you were eager for the chance
> to introduce errors.
>

I'm a beginner, lighten up James.

> p IO.readlines( "data" ).map{|x| x.strip }
> p IO.read( "data" ).split
> p IO.read( "data" ).scan(/\S+/)