From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-01-26T15:52:46+09:00
Subject: Re: datafiles as Ruby source musings

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Carrera" <dcarrera@math.umd.edu>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 9:37 PM
Subject: Re: datafiles as Ruby source musings


> On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:12:31PM +0900, ahoward wrote:
> > > Does anybody have a nice hint or better trick to create data- or
config files
> > > readable with Ruby without having to write parsers in ruby?

I recently helped someone write code to do
something similar... it basically did a split
on the = sign, used the lefthand side as a
hash key; then we used the hash keys to make
a Struct and stored the values in the struct.

If your righthand side is other than a simple
string, you might want to eval. Unless you
consider eval evil. :)

Hal