Cfrgtkky

I am having difficulty in writing array elements into a text file in the form of 1 element per line. In this instance array is built on sentences (.) .

Please see comments in code below:

puts "enter paragraph:"

para = gets.chomp.to_s

my_array = 



para.split('.').each { |p| my_array << p+ '.'; print "pushed #{p}.";puts}

new_text = File.new("new_text.txt", "w+")

p my_array

my_array.each { |m| new_text.write(m)} #clearly iterating over my_array.

#.each should be writing each element on a different line, no?  Where have I gone wrong?

new_text.seek(0)



#text file is still stored in new_text variable

#the read out shows elements are not written per line

line = 1

new_text.each do |n|

    puts "line #{line}: #{n}"

    line += 1

    end

.each should be writing each element on a different line? no

No, whether you're iterating over something does not really matter. What matters is how you're writing into the file.

Currently you're using IO#write which doesn't say anything about adding newlines. If you change new_text.write to new_text.puts (IO#puts) you will be writing a new line after each element from your array.

You can easily see it by using $stdout directly:

> a = %w(foo bar)

 => ["foo", "bar"] 

> a.each(&$stdout.method(:write)) # write -- no newlines

foobar => ["foo", "bar"] 

> a.each(&$stdout.method(:puts))  # puts  -- newlines

foo

bar

 => ["foo", "bar"]