From: ideal one <lists@...>
Date: 2012-06-07T10:03:38+09:00
Subject: Parsing pipe delimited text file & storing in arrays

Hi,
 I have a txt file with pipe delimited as show below.

An example log file is: 
test1|table1|chair1|55.00
test2|table2|chair2|155.00
test3|table3|chair3|55.50
test1|table4|chair4|47.75

i want to parse this txt file and my expected out should be

(i) Total Cost of test1 = 55.00 + 47.75
(ii) test1 possessed chair1 and chair4

How do i achieve this in ruby code, i tried but doing it as array but
how can i add up the price what 'test1' is responsible to pay?

array = File.read("pipetest.txt").split(",").map(&:strip)

puts array[1,2]

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