From: Remington Splettstoesser <remi500@...>
Date: 2010-04-09T05:36:46+09:00
Subject: Re: simple text parsing

Thank You gfb!

Remington

On Apr 8, 2010, at 5:55 PM, GianFranco Bozzetti wrote:

> 
> "Remington Splettstoesser" <remi500@freenet.de> wrote in message 
> news:9E14B810-41E6-4002-AB4D-894F60F14687@freenet.de...
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> What is the best way to get this input
> 
> test.txt
> ------------------------------------------------
> David | Hansson | Chicago
> Obie | Fernandez | Jacksonville
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> to this output:
> 
> First Name: David
> Last Name: Hansson
> City: Chicago
> 
> First Name: Obie
> Last Name: Fernandez
> City: Jacksonville
> 
> ?????????????????????????
> 
> This is what I've tried so far.. I'm pretty far off I believe. Any 
> suggestions would help with learning the ins and outs of Ruby (or 
> programming in general)
> 
> -----------------------------
> test.rb
> ----------------------------
> myArray = []
> file = File.open("test.txt", 'r+')
> file.each_line do |line|
>  x = line.scan(/\w+/).inspect
>  myArray = x
>  puts myArray
> end
> 
> my output
> -----------------------
> $ ruby test.rb
> ["David", "Hansson", "Chicago"]
> ["Obie", "Fernandez", "Jacksonville"]
> 
> 
> Thanks in Advance
> Remington Splettstoesser
> 
> A solution is to use printf as in the folloving code:
> 
> # test1.rb
> file = File.open("test.txt", 'r+')
> file.each_line do |line|
> myArray = line.scan(/\w+/)
> # myArray = line.split(/[\s|]+/)   Alternative solution to scan
> printf("\nFirst Name: %-s\nLast Name : %-s\nCity      : %-s\n", *myArray)
> end
> 
> Hth gfb
> 
> 
> 
>