On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 09:11 pm, Robert Cowham wrote:
> f = File.open("fred.ini", "r")
> f.each_line{|l| s = l.chomp.split("="); h[s[0]] = s[1]}
> f.close

You can condense that into one line:

File.readlines("fred.ini"){...}

The rest looks pretty much as good as you're gonna get.

Tim Bates
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