From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T09:12:22+09:00
Subject: Re: How to specify a record delimiter in a source text file?

Kurt Euler wrote:

> Please advise as to how I can deliniate end-of-records by something other than the default hard-return.

According to the FM:

     http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_io.html#IO.foreach

you can override the line separator string by passing a second argument 
to IO.foreach, e.g.

     IO.foreach("./control/packages.txt", "\t") do |field|
       # do stuff here
     end

Hope this helps,

Lyle