From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-03-06T01:10:02+09:00
Subject: Re: add a new line after, w/txtfile thats comma delimited

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:58 PM, terminate <andrewhoho@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to Ruby but I just read a book that had an example that is
> similar to this.  I've changed the code to see if I can solve this
> problem and it seems to do it.
>
> #code:
>
> lines = File.readlines("temp.txt")
> values = lines.split(/,/)
>
> output_file = File.open('output.txt', 'w')
> values.each do |line|
> output_file.puts line
> end

Just a comment here. It's usually better to use the block form of open,
since that will take care of closing the file, even when an error happens:

File.open('output.txt','w') do |output_file|
 #...
end

Jesus.