From: Jeremy Woertink <jeremywoertink@...>
Date: 2009-11-18T09:26:50+09:00
Subject: Re: help with parsing

Mayur Shivakumar wrote:
> Hi ,
>   i am new to ruby and can anybody tell me way i can parse a tab
> delimited text file and convert it into a hash. thank you.

You can try

filename = "my_tab_delimeted_file.txt"

File.readlines(filename).each do |line|
  line.split("\t").each do |item|
    puts item
  end
end


~Jeremy
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