Help reading data from a file

Ruby
1

I have a ruby program that I use to generate text files from a single
array’s data, but what I would like to do is be able to have it generate
files from multiple arrays and save them in a different folder when it
starts writing files from a different array.

One problem I’m facing is how to read an array from a file. If I have a
file with an only an array in it, how do I apply a method such as
“.generate” to the array? Do I name the array inside the file, such as
“array1” and then apply the method “.generate”? Or can it be applied to
the file itself, such as “file1.generate”?

cities = [‘Nashville’,
‘Orlando’,
‘Tampa’
‘Memphis’
]

cities.each do |city|
output = %Q(#{city})

######################################

#Saves File.

######################################

File::open("C:\\Documents And

Settings\Administrator\Desktop\city\#{city.downcase.delete(’
')}.txt", ‘w’) do |f|
f.write output
end
end

I’m not sure of the best way to expand this code to have it generate
files for multiple arrays and have each array’s generated files be saved
in a separate folder instead of all of them together. To keep from
having 1 huge file, I’d like to have each array in a different file, but
if this isn’t the best way to do it, can someone give me a better
example…?

2

Zoe P. wrote:

One problem I’m facing is how to read an array from a file.

puts IO.read(“data2”)
Nashville
Orlando
Tampa
Memphis
==>nil

p IO.readlines(“data2”)
[“Nashville\n”, “Orlando\n”, “Tampa\n”, “Memphis\n”]
==>nil

p IO.readlines(“data2”).map{|s| s.strip}
[“Nashville”, “Orlando”, “Tampa”, “Memphis”]
==>nil

p IO.read(“data2”).split( /\s*\n\s*/ )
[“Nashville”, “Orlando”, “Tampa”, “Memphis”]
==>nil

3

William J. wrote:

Zoe P. wrote:

One problem I’m facing is how to read an array from a file.

puts IO.read(“data2”)
Nashville
Orlando
Tampa
Memphis
==>nil

p IO.read(“data2”).split( /\s*\n\s*/ )
[“Nashville”, “Orlando”, “Tampa”, “Memphis”]
==>nil

puts IO.read(“data2.txt”)

–output:–
Nashville
Orlando
Tampa
Memphis

p IO.read(“data2.txt”).split()

–output:–
[“Nashville”, “Orlando”, “Tampa”, “Memphis”]

4

Zoe P. wrote:

One problem I’m facing is how to read an array from a file. If I have a
file with only an array in it, how do I apply a method such as
“.generate” to the array?

arr = %w{Nashville Orlando Tampa Memphis}

File.open(“data.txt”, “w”) do |f|
Marshal.dump(arr, f)
end

cities = nil

File.open(“data.txt”) do |f|
cities = Marshal.load(f)
end

p cities
p cities.length
p cities.reverse

–output:–
[“Nashville”, “Orlando”, “Tampa”, “Memphis”]
4
[“Memphis”, “Tampa”, “Orlando”, “Nashville”]

cities = [‘Nashville’,
‘Orlando’,
‘Tampa’
‘Memphis’
]

cities.each do |city|
output = %Q(#{city})
dir = “/some/path/#{city.downcase.delete(’ ')}.txt”

File::open(dir, 'w') do |f|
    f.write output
end

end

I have a ruby program that I use to generate text files from a single
array’s data, but what I would like to do is be able to have it generate
files from multiple arrays and save them in a different folder when it
starts writing files from a different array.

data = {
‘cities’ => %w{Nasheville Olrando Tampa Memphis},
‘dogs’ => %w{small medium large},
‘friends’ => %w{Dave Cathy Jill}
}

dirs = {
‘cities’ => ‘./a’, #Must be existing dirs
‘dogs’ => ‘./b’,
‘friends’ => ‘./c’
}

data.each do |key, val|
current_path = “#{dirs[key]}/#{key}”

File.open(current_path, “w”) do |f|
val.each do |arr_element|
f.write "#{arr_element} "
end
end

end

5

7stud – wrote:

7stud – wrote:

File.open(current_path, “w”) do |f|
val.each do |arr_element|
f.write "#{arr_element} "
end
end

That could be simply:

File.open(current_path, “w”) do |f|
f.write val.join(" ")
end

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6

7stud – wrote:

File.open(current_path, “w”) do |f|
val.each do |arr_element|
f.write "#{arr_element} "
end
end

That could be simply:

File.open(current_path, “w”) do |f|
f.write val.join(" ")
end