Class: Apfel::Reader

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/apfel/reader.rb

Overview

Class for reading in files and returning an array of its content

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.read(file) ⇒ Object

Reads in a file and returns an array consisting of each line of input cleaned of new line characters



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# File 'lib/apfel/reader.rb', line 6

def self.read(file)
  File.open(file, 'r') do |f|
    content = f.read.force_encoding('UTF-8')
    # remove the BOM that can be found at char 0 in UTF8 strings files
    if content.chars.first == "\xEF\xBB\xBF".force_encoding('UTF-8')
      content.slice!(0)
    end
    content.each_line.inject([]) do |content_array, line|
      line.gsub!("\n","")
      content_array.push(line)
    end
  end
end