From: Ross Shaw <rshaw1961@...>
Date: 2002-11-24T21:21:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby idom needed

In article <Xns92D06BB23793rcvaccapernacouk@130.133.1.4>,
 Robert Cowham <rc@vaccaperna.co.uk> wrote:

> What's the best ruby idiom for the following Perl:
> 
>     open(EMAIL, "<$EMAIL_FILE") or die "Failed to open $EMAIL_FILE";
>     my %hash = map {chomp; split /\=/} (<EMAIL>);
>     close (EMAIL);
> 
> (the above reads a file containing text like
> 
> key1=value1
> key2=value2
> 
> into a hash.
> 
> So far I have:
> 
> h = {}
> f = File.open("fred.ini", "r")
> f.each_line{|l| s = l.chomp.split("="); h[s[0]] = s[1]}
> f.close
> 
> 

h = {}
File.foreach("fred.ini") do |line|
  key, value = line.chomp.split("=")
  h[key] = value
end


Ross