Building a Country File Parser in Ruby
This guide will show you how to build a method that can analyze a text file concerning countries and return the information required.
Guide Tasks
- Read Tutorial
- Complete the Exercise
Summary
Build a method that parses a file and returns data about a country.
Exercise Description
For this coding exercise, you should be able to define a method that can pull out the country code and first abbreviation from a raw text file of country information.
Example Data
(['93', 'AF']) (['263', 'ZW'])
Real World Usage
If you are given a file with a lot of information, in this case about countries, this exercise helps you understand how fast it can be to implement a method that can retrieve specific code about each country, without all the excess data.