From: Justin To <tekmc@...>
Date: 2008-06-05T02:43:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Beginner: Read file

Hi Eric,

Thanks so much for your help. I'm reading O'Reilly Ruby Cookbook, which 
I have found rather difficult to learn from. I'm also reading a free 
tutorial online at rubylearning.com. Neither provide enough 
clarification for me as I am new to Ruby.

Also, I'm very confused on the regular expressions:

Problem: I want to have a file that has information, for instance,
 Version #, Part #
 v.1.0-A,   000000
 v.1.0-A,   000000

Now I want to store each character that's not a 'v', '.', or '-' as one 
string in one array called version (so element one should read "10A"). 
Then I want to say, "Ok I'm at a comma now, so I want to store the 
following information in the next array"... so I want to store the whole 
part# as one element of an array, called part (element one should read 
"000000"). Then... I want to say, "Ok, I'm at a newline, so start the 
same process again"

basically, i want to compare if two lines have the same version# or 
part#
so in this case, i want to check if version[0] == version[1], which 
should return true. ("10A"=="10A")

Probably a very confusing explanation, but if you can help that'd be 
great. I'm trying to learn by doing some examples like this, but it's 
very difficult =(

Thanks again!!
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