From: HarryO <harryo@...>
Date: 2001-12-30T13:37:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29702] Re: comma-delimited to an array

On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:06:26 +1100, nobu.nokada wrote:

>> num,date,time,orig,type,action,rule,iface
>> 1,28Dec2001,23:59:51,121.210.49.22,log,accept,16,eth-s1p2c0
>> 2,28Dec2001,23:59:44,121.210.48.11,log,drop,20,eth-s1p1c0
>> 3,28Dec2001,23:59:57,121.210.49.22,log,accept,16,eth-s1p1c0
>> 
> Possibly, you may want to access each elements by names in the first
> line?
> 
>   data = []
>   open(file) do |f|
>     foo = Struct.new(nil, *f.gets.chomp.split(",")) f.each do |line|
>       bar = foo.new(*line.chomp.split(",")) data[bar.num.to_i] = bar
>     end
>   end

What an excellent example of using Struct!  I would have used
arrays of hashes and the code would have been a lot messier.

This will definitely go into my personal list of Ruby idioms.