[#406419] Recursion with Hash — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

h = {a: {b: {c: 23}}}

14 messages 2013/04/01

[#406465] Exclusively for Rubyists, a community on Facebook — "senthil k." <lists@...>

I was surprised to know that there is no community for Ruby Programming

12 messages 2013/04/03
[#406467] Re: Exclusively for Rubyists, a community on Facebook — Marc Heiler <lists@...> 2013/04/04

Thing is, some people do not use Facebook and never will.

[#406528] Role of bundler in creating and installing a gem — Jon Cairns <lists@...>

Hi fellow rubyists,

11 messages 2013/04/05

[#406555] How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — peteV <pete0verse@...>

Hi Ruby people,

18 messages 2013/04/05
[#406558] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — "Carlo E. Prelz" <fluido@...> 2013/04/05

Subject: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is?

[#406560] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Hans Mackowiak <lists@...> 2013/04/05

Carlo E. Prelz wrote in post #1104616:

[#406562] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — "D. Deryl Downey" <me@...> 2013/04/05

Actually its not wrong. What it does is explicitly state which ruby

[#406563] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matt Lawrence <matt@...> 2013/04/05

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, D. Deryl Downey wrote:

[#406564] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Hans Mackowiak <lists@...> 2013/04/05

Matt Lawrence wrote in post #1104625:

[#406566] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matt Lawrence <matt@...> 2013/04/05

On Sat, 6 Apr 2013, Hans Mackowiak wrote:

[#406570] Re: How do you know what the main file in Ruby Projects is? — Matthew Mongeau <halogenandtoast@...> 2013/04/05

I'm interested in the issue with using env, but I find you explanation a but=

[#406600] Mapping string data ptr to buffer in ffi — se gm <lists@...>

I'm trying to implement some "shared memory" in Ruby, but I'm not sure

20 messages 2013/04/08

[#406683] confusion with Struct class — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

I went to there - http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Struct.html but the

29 messages 2013/04/11
[#406694] Re: confusion with Struct class — Love U Ruby <lists@...> 2013/04/11

Why does every time the has value getting changed,while the instance

[#406762] Why does #content method in nokogiri not printing the full text? — Love U Ruby <lists@...>

Here is the documentation: http://www.rubydoc.info/gems/nokogiri/frames

19 messages 2013/04/14
[#406764] Re: Why does #content method in nokogiri not printing the full text? — tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...> 2013/04/14

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Love U Ruby <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

[#406874] Input: sentence Modify: words Output: modified sentence — Philip Parker <lists@...>

I am new to Ruby. This is a programming interview question to use any

11 messages 2013/04/19

[#406912] Tap method : good or bad practice ? — Sébastien Durand <lists@...>

Hi all !

18 messages 2013/04/21

[#406936] BEGINNER -CLASS QUERY — shaik farooq <lists@...>

HEY as we know that the object conatins the instance variables that are

22 messages 2013/04/22

[#406966] copying files syntax with FileUtils.rb (grr.) — Thomas Luedeke <lists@...>

In my Ruby scripting, there is probably no greater and chronic source of

10 messages 2013/04/23

[#406969] what is the $- magic global? — Matthew Kerwin <lists@...>

I've been searching for the past hour or so, including manually stepping

13 messages 2013/04/24

[#407059] New Rexx like data structure — Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@...>

This is just something that I have been playing with for some time but I

11 messages 2013/04/29

[#407070] writing lines to a file — peteV <pete0verse@...>

I have a text file with on every line a magic card number and such info

13 messages 2013/04/29

Re: BEGINNER - Convert csv file to tsv

From: Jes俍 Gabriel y Gal疣 <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2013-04-24 08:57:56 UTC
List: ruby-talk #406984
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Jon R. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a beginner at Ruby, but I am trying to convert a csv file into a
> tsv file.
>
> The data is stored in source.csv and I need to out put it to a file in
> the same directory called source.tsv, I also need to cater to output to
> .txt and .xml, but starting with tsv first.
>
>
> Contents of source.csv
> "Firstname","Lastname","Postcode"
> "John","Smith","EC1"
> "Paula","James","NE13"
>
>
> Output to file source.tsv
> Firstname  Lastname  Postcode
> John  Smith  EC1
> Paula  James  NE13
>
>
> I have started with this:
>
> filename = ARGV.first
> output_file_format = ARGV.second
>
> file = open(filename, "r+")
> valid_file_formats = ["tsv"]
>
> if output_file_format == "tsv"
>   File.open (filename, "r") do |f|
>     new_file = File.open("source.tsv", "w")
>                 f.each_line do |line|
>                 fields = line.split (""\n")
>                 fields.each { |fd| fd = "\"#{fd}\""
>                 new_file.write(fields.join(",")
>   end
>   new_file.close
> end
>
>
> I understand what I need to do in my head, for each line remove the " or
> , characters and replace the , character with a tab (\t), but I am
> struggling with the syntax.
>
> Using a bit of help from http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/4097630#new
>
> Thanks in advance

I would use the csv in the stdlib to parse the csv:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html

Jesus.

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