From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-07-11T19:03:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to write a first plain ruby script


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:05:54 +0900
> Von: Jesse Crockett <tefflox@gmail.com>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: Trying to write a first plain ruby script

> In irb, the method "one\ntwo\nthree".split worked fine
> 
> but in  a file..
> -------------------------------
> @text = "
> 
> line one
> line two
> line three
> "
> 
> @lines = @text.split(/\n/)
> -------------------------------
> 
> .. it fails: "private method `split' called for nil:NilClass
> (NoMethodError)"
> 
> After getting the array of lines, again I need to call split() on each
> line, then joing them with ", "
> 
> (basically I need a CSV file for 14,000 lines verb annotation from
> WordNet)
> 
> It's late, so I probably could not figure this out myself tonight.  Any
> help is welcome.  Thank you.
> -- 
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Dear Jesse,

I cannot reproduce your error on Ubuntu Linux ... did you really post the exact text/code ?
What operating system are you working on ? I suspect that the line breaks might be \r\n instead
of just \n (especially if the text file was created on Windows), and that

@lines = @text.split(/\n|\r\n/)

would work.

Best regards,

Axel 
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