From: Jester Mania <jester_b84@...>
Date: 2010-12-03T02:27:54+09:00
Subject: Text Parsing Help

Greetings,

I am new to Ruby and programming and am trying to parse a text file, but
encountered some difficulties.

Basically, the text file contains lines in the following format (where
\n is not really a newline but the text "\n"):

TextString   [SYMBOL]\nDefinition

I need to replace the text \n with a tab, as I am attempting to separate
all the "tokens" by tabs.  The issue here is that \n happens to be a
newline character.  I tried searching the forums and tried the following
code:

lineItem = line.gsub("\\\\n", "\t")

but it doesn't seem to work and the \n is not being replaced.  How can I
convert the \n text into a tab?

Any help is greatly appreciated!

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