From: Jam <jam@...>
Date: 2012-06-07T11:41:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing pipe delimited text file & storing in arrays



On Jun 6, 2012, at 7:03 PM, ideal one <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> 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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Why are you splitting on commas when your delimiter is a pipe?