Question

how to parse the textfile like

name   id
name   id

and save in an array of arrays in ruby.

So far i have:

content = []
File.open("my/file/path", "r").each_line do |line|
    person << line.chop
end

It gives the output as:

"name\tID", "name2\tID" ....

Answer 1

this should work:

content = []
File.open("my/file/path", "r").each_line do |line|
   person << line.chop.split("\t")
end

EDIT: to create separate arrays do this:

content = []
persons = []
ids = []
File.open("my/file/path", "r").each_line do |line|
   temp = line.chop.split("\t")
   persons << temp[0]
   ids << temp[1]
end