From: Seebs <usenet-nospam@...>
Date: 2009-11-18T09:35:24+09:00
Subject: Re: help with parsing

On 2009-11-18, Mayur Shivakumar <sk.mayur@gmail.com> wrote:
>   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.

It would depend on what was delimited by the tabs.

You might try:

	x = File.read("data.text")
	x.sub!(%r{.*\n}, '#')

This reads the contents of the file into a string, and turns it into
a hash (#).

-s
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