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Hi --

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Tim Wolak wrote:

> Morning all,
>
> I sent an email on this yesterday and needed to give you guys some example
> code.  Below is some code I have for grabbing the numbers I need from lines
> in a text file that we receive via FTP.  My big concern is the negative
> numbers for accounts which are indicated by a position in the file where 0
> is a postive number and is a negative number. What is the best way toet
> my account balance and make it a negative number?  I¥±m not sure I¥±m doing it
> the correct way in this script.
>
> class Info
>  attr_reader :acct, :money
>
>  def initialize(filename)
>    @acct = File.new(filename, "r")
>  end
>    f = Info.new("Balances20080415.txt")

It's extremely unusual (I don't think I've ever seen it) to put
instantiation and scripting code (for lack of a better term) inside a
class definition. It will get executed, but it's really odd-looking
:-)

Question: Can you provide some sample lines of input? I can't quite
get a fix on what the lines look like. I'm wondering whether scanf
might help you.


David

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