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Hi all ,
I am new to ruby.I need to retrieve values from a file
in my ruby script.That file contains different nos of rows..
and in single row i have many parameters which are
separated by comma.How can i retrieve a particular parameter
value from a file.can u plz help?
example-
my file contains data like

product1,product2,product3,....etc
comp1,comp2,comp3....etc..

If i want to retrieve product2 how can i do it.Please help me.Now i am 
doing
it
by putting only single value in a row.

2006/5/26, Tanushree Bhoi <tanushree.bhoi@gmail.com>:
> comp1,comp2,comp3....etc..
>
> If i want to retrieve product2 how can i do it.Please help me.Now i am doing
> it
> by putting only single value in a row.

You can use CSV for this:

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html

Kind regards

robert