> > h = {}
> > File.foreach("fred.ini") do |line|
> >   key, value = line.chomp.split("=")
> >   h[key] = value
> > end
> > 
> > 
> > Ross
> 
> 
> Thank you!  This is clear and still concise.  The other responses
> seem
> to gravitate towards Perl-like one-liners. But this defeats the
> purpose of writing in Ruby---to avoid Perl obfuscations.  The above
> is
> much more readable and also much more idiomatic than many of the
> others.  This should go into athe Ruby Cookbook (if it were still
> up).

Well said; I found this to be the best balanced between rubyish and
still readable.
> 


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