From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-10-15T22:06:09+09:00
Subject: Re: How do i split a file by newline

2010/10/15 Une Bévue <unbewusst.sein@fai.invalid>:
> Amit Tomar <amittomer25@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> path="E:/expr/amit.txt"
>> File.open(path).each do |i|
>> k=i.split("\n" )
>>
>> puts  "#{k[0]}"
>> end
>>
>> i should get amit only but am getting
>> amit
>> sumit
>>
>> how do i make them split from newline??
>
> no need to split("\n") because it's allready done :
> #! /opt/local/bin/ruby1.9
> # encoding: utf-8
> k=[]
> File.open("amit.txt").each {|l| k<<l }
> puts k[0]

Even simpler

k = File.readlines "amit.txt"
# different separator
# k = File.readlines "amit.txt", "\t"

Cheers

robert

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