http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:34:32 GMT DZone Snippets: Danny's Code Snippets http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1311 Loads properties from a file with lines formatted as 'key=value' into a Hash. Comments (lines starting with #) are skipped, as are lines starting with =. Empty property values (lines ending with =) and property values containing = are included in the Hash. <br /> <br /><code> <br /> def load_properties(properties_filename) <br /> properties = {} <br /> File.open(properties_filename, 'r') do |properties_file| <br /> properties_file.read.each_line do |line| <br /> line.strip! <br /> if (line[0] != ?# and line[0] != ?=) <br /> i = line.index('=') <br /> if (i) <br /> properties[line[0..i - 1].strip] = line[i + 1..-1].strip <br /> else <br /> properties[line] = '' <br /> end <br /> end <br /> end <br /> end <br /> properties <br /> end <br /></code> Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:59:55 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1311 danny (Danny Lagrouw)