From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-02-25T21:26:41+09:00
Subject: Re: reading file to list

2009/1/19 William James <w_a_x_man@yahoo.com>:
> André Thieme wrote:

> That fails when numbers are separated by more than one space.
> And what about leading or trailing space?

Thsi is easily fixed:

File.readlines("blob.txt").map{|line| line.scan(/\d+/).map{|s| s.to_i }}

Btw, this will also read in the advertised Lisp notation with leading
and trailing bracket per line. :-)

Cheers

robert

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