From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-12-04T03:47:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby idom needed

On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 07:41:26PM +0900, Robert Cowham wrote:
> (the above reads a file containing text like
> 
> key1=value1
> key2=value2
> 
> into a hash.

I like #scan.  It looks quite readable to me:

h = []
File.open('fred.ini').read.scan(/(\w+)=(\w+)/) { h[$1] = $2 }

Massimiliano