From: Felix Feelx <feelx@...>
Date: 2010-02-03T07:56:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing text with while loop.

Felix Feelx wrote:
> Aldric Giacomoni wrote:
>> Felix Feelx wrote:
>>> I am parsing a csv file and I am unable to end my loop as I want it.
>>> 
>>> When I run my ruby file, I get this :
>>> 
>>> feelx@tbiweb:~/public_html$ ruby csv_to_sql.rb
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/date/format.rb:1055:in `dup': can't dup NilClass
>>> (TypeError)
>>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/date/format.rb:1055:in `_parse'
>>>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/date.rb:999:in `parse'
>>>         from csv_to_sql.rb:43
>>> 
>>> Link to my code : http://pastie.org/806415
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> 
>>> Felix
>> 
>> Why wouldn't you trust JEGII's CSV library (or 'FasterCSV' if you are on 
>> 1.8') ? It does all the hard work of parsing CSV for you.
> 
> Because the content of the csv is not constant. It's not built as a 
> database file...

Why doing :

begin
   <some stuff>
end until (blop[24] == "Total:")

if blop[24] contains a string would give an error saying "can't dup 
NilClass"?
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