From: Yaj Bhattacharya <yajnaval@...>
Date: 2009-03-14T02:07:51+09:00
Subject: reading data files with headers and columns

Hello,

As a noob to Ruby, I need to read a data file with the first few lines
as header, then the rest of the file as columns of different variables
as arrays (in this case, 5 columns).
After reading in the variables, I want to calculate some operations
with each unique data field address (e.g. column3, row4), then write
out the file with headers and data in columns.

Could someone help with a few lines of basic code?

Thanks in advance
Yaj