Ooo Grec wrote:

> I would like to read for each line:name, order and year (3 variables per 
> line). How can i do this?


String.split will work if there is whitespace in between each item:

irb(main):001:0> x = 'Peter 4 1990'
=> "Peter 4 1990"
irb(main):002:0> x.split
=> ["Peter", "4", "1990"]
irb(main):003:0> quit

Now, you have an array that contains [name, order, year]

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