From: "Kent S." <happy@...>
Date: 2004-02-09T07:20:14+09:00
Subject: Re: prepend file line number to array

How about

ary = []
file.each_line {|line| ary << "#{file.lineno} #{line}" }

/kent

Joseph Paish wrote:
> using ruby, i am trying to read a file of a couple hundred lines into an 
> array and prepend (if there is such a word) the line number (starting at 1)  
> to the beginning of each line.  
> 
> a simple example from the file follows :
> 01/02/2004 bought 100 widgets 19.95 company_1
> 01/02/2004 sold 5 widgets 22.95 company_2
> 01/02/2004 bought 50 widgets 19.95 company_1
> 
> what i would like to end up with is :
> 
> 1 01/02/2004 bought 100 widgets 19.95 company_1
> 2 01/02/2004 sold 5 widgets 22.95 company_2
> 3 01/02/2004 bought 50 widgets 19.95 company_1
> 
> 
> is there an array method that i can use on each element to prepend the line 
> number after reading the file into an array using IO.readlines?  
> 
> thanks
> 
> joe
> 
> 
> 
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