Ltsv

LTSV: A Parser / Dumper for Labelled Tab-Separated Values (LTSV)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ltsv'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ltsv

Usage

At first, you should require ltsv:

require 'ltsv'

In addition, if you manage gems with bundler, you should add the statement below into your Gemfile:

gem 'ltsv'

parsing LTSV

# parse string
string = "label1:value1\tlabel2:value2"
values = LTSV.parse(string) # => {:label1 => "value1", :label2 => "value2"}

# parse via stream
# content: as below
# label1_1:value1_1\tlabel1_2:value1_2
# label2_1:value2_1\tlabel2_2:value2_2
stream = File.open("some_file.ltsv", "r")
values = LTSV.parse(stream)
# => [{:label1_1 => "value1_2", :label1_2 => "value1_2"},
#     {:label2_1 => "value2_2", :label2_2 => "value2_2"}]

Current limitation: parsed string should be in one line. If you include any special chars that may affect to the processing( "\r", "\n", "\t", "\"), you should properly escape it with backslash.

loading LTSV file

# parse via path
values = LTSV.parse("some_path.ltsv")

# parse via stream
stream = File.open("some_file.ltsv", "r")
values = LTSV.load(stream) # => same as LTSV.parse(stream)

dumping into LTSV

value = {label1: "value1", label2: "value2"}
dumped = LTSV.dump(value) # => "label1:value1\tlabel2:value2"

Dumped objects should respond to :to_hash.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request