From: Kurt Euler Date: 2003-08-23T14:36:00+09:00 Subject: Slitting at tabs still done the same way in 1.8? Can anyone confirm that the way to parse a tab-delimited line in a text file in Ruby 1.8 is still as follows: IO.foreach("./control/control_sp#{sp_num}.txt") { |x| field = x.chop.split("\t") Thanks. -ke