From: Nick da G <nick.gorbikoff@...>
Date: 2009-04-16T02:34:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing Fixed Width File

> It's pretty simple so I'm not sure that a library is needed
> 
> fields = [5,12,5,2,20] #<- the size of each field
> field_pattern = "A#{fields.join('A')}"
> File.foreach(filename) do |line|
>   row = line.unpack(field_pattern)
>   ... #use row[0] etc for each field
> end
> 
> Andrew Timberlake
> http://ramblingsonrails.com
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewtimberlake
> 
> "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education" - Mark Twain


Yeah that's pretty much what I ended up doing.
Created an object that defines each record (line)

then pass it at a line from file, and get an object back that I can do 
what I want with - like outputing to csv .

I was jsut wondering if there was a more simple and elegant solution. 
But I guess you can't go simpler than that. :-) Thanks for a response!
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