From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-01-12T12:03:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby:  politics & performance [long]

On Sunday, 12 January 2003 at 11:47:49 +0900, Louis Krupp wrote:
> Meanwhile, I'm learning some things about Ruby.  NArray will almost
> certainly be better than using generic arrays for lists of what I
> know will be numbers.
> 
> Another poster suggested DATA.read.split, and that would work if I
> had only one array to worry about.  Unfortunately, there are a
> bunch of them, and they're scattered throughout the generated
> script.
> 
> Thanks to everyone for the replies!
 
 I have just finished working on a Hierarchical Line parser
 that uses regular expressions to identify structure in the file
 and puts the structured file in an array or hash, as you desire.

 If you think it will help, I will send it to you.
 
-- 
Jim Freeze
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