From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2003-04-25T19:28:04+09:00
Subject: Re: parsing large file into matrix

On Friday, 25 April 2003 at 19:18:40 +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> 
> "Jim Freeze" <jim@freeze.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:20030425002319.A47026@freeze.org...
> > On Thursday, 24 April 2003 at 19:08:17 +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> > >
> >  Here's a common scenario that I use.
> >  This file allows comments that start with '#'.
> >  All other lines that are not empty are data.
> >
> >  def to_number(str)
> >    Integer(str) rescue Float(str) rescue str
> >  end
> >
> >  matrix = []
> >  File.foreach(file) { |line|
> >   next if /^\s*$/ =~ line
> >   next if /^\s*#/ =~ line
> >   matrix << line.strip.split(/\t/).collect { |i| to_number(i) }
> >  }
> 
> next if /^\s*(#.*)?$/ =~ line
> 
> sorry, couldn't resist. :-)

Sorry, I don't understand. Are you trying to capture the comment
and then throw it away?


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