Ruby: Read a file into an associative array

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I am learning Ruby coming from a C base background (C++, PHP, C#, ...)

I want to be able to read the file into an associative array where I can access the elements by the column head name.

My file is formatted as follows:

KeyName    Val1Name   Val2Name  ...  ValMName
Key1       Val1-1     Val2-1    ...  ValM-1
Key2       Val1-2     Val2-2    ...  ValM-2   
Key3       Val1-3     Val2-3    ...  ValM-3
..         ..         ..        ..    ..
KeyN       Val1-N     Val2-N    ...  ValM-N

The only problem is I don't have a clue how to do it.

So far I have:

    scores = File.read("scores.txt")
    lines = scores.split("\n")
    lines.each { |x|
        y = x.to_s.split(' ')
    }

... which gets close to what I want, but still am unable to get it into the format that is usable for me.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

-Brianne

asked 17 secs ago

user3547203

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