Question

File.open(path, 'r').each do |line| 
  row = line.chomp.split('\t')
  puts "#{row[0]}"
end

path is the path of file having content like name, age, profession, hobby

I’m expecting output to be name only but I am getting the whole line.

Why is it so?

Answer 1

Your question was not very clear

split("\n") – if you want to split by lines

split – if you want to split by spaces

and as I can understand, you do not need chomp, because it removes all the “\n”