From: dblack@...
Date: 2003-08-23T20:55:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Slitting at tabs still done the same way in 1.8?

Hi --

On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Kurt Euler wrote:

> 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")

I'd add a closing brace :-)  Also, probably chomp is better than
chop, in case your last line doesn't have a newline at the end.
Other than that I think it's OK.

But I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop....  It sounds like
something isn't working for you.  Is that right?


David

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