Chris Daves wrote: > Hi, > I've created a simple program which will read in a file. > # > > class Reference > references = 'C:\Documents and Settings\Chris > Davies\Desktop\References.rb' > > f = File.open(references, 'r') > file_data = f.read > f.close > > > > puts file_data > end > # > > but i want to take this file data and interpret each line of data and > the put each line into a new file line by line. > > cheers File.open("path/your/file") do |sFile| while sLine = sFile.gets puts YouCanSeeYourData end end -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.