From: dblack@...
Date: 2002-11-24T21:25:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby idom needed

Hi --

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Robert Cowham 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

A couple of possibilities:

1.

  h = Hash[*File.new("fred.ini").read.split(/=|\n/)]

2.

  h = {}
  File.new("fred.ini").each {|l| h.update(Hash[*l.chomp.split("=")])}


David

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