fh = <<EOF
america
american
april
...
EOF
This will likely add parsing overhead to the script: if you're a
performance freak (or would just like a better way), take a tip from how
perl hackers do this and use the __END__ method, described here:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/9555
I /was/ trying to avoid parsing overhead, otherwise I would have just
thrown the data into an array or a string as described in responses. The
__END__ trick is pretty neat, and will certainly solve the problem for
now (Thanks!).
However, I do imagine replacing this flat-file database with something
pre-indexed and more quickly searchable (like bdb and friends) in the
future. Hence, it makes sense to keep this as a non-source "data" file.
So, this won't fix my problem forever.
I'll keep an eye on rubygems and when they proclaim a solution to the
"datadir problem", I will use that. Until then, I will use this neat
__END__ hack.
Thanks,
--
Caleb Phillips
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