From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-06-06T11:20:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question concerning ruby and mysql

From: Michael Litchard [mailto:michael@schmong.org] 
# Here's the code I'll be working from
# <snip>

your code looks fine. don't change it just because of single header.
why not filter your data then pipe it to your code.

eg,

  sed 1d your_data | ruby your_code


kind regards -botp