From: terminate <andrewhoho@...>
Date: 2009-03-06T01:13:35+09:00
Subject: Re: add a new line after, w/txtfile thats comma delimited

On Mar 5, 11:10 am, Jesús Gabriel y Galán <jgabrielyga...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:58 PM, terminate <andrewh...@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.

Thanks for the clarification Jesus!