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    copied!<p>Here's one way of doing it:</p> <p>Build a sample string of seven words, with an embedded new-line in the middle of the string. There are three lines worth.</p> <pre><code>text = (["now is the\ntime for all good"] * 3).join(' ').gsub(' ', '|') puts text # &gt;&gt; now|is|the # &gt;&gt; time|for|all|good|now|is|the # &gt;&gt; time|for|all|good|now|is|the # &gt;&gt; time|for|all|good </code></pre> <p>Process like this:</p> <pre><code>lines = [] chunks = text.gsub("\n", '|').split('|') while (chunks.any?) lines &lt;&lt; chunks.slice!(0, 7).join(' ') end puts lines # &gt;&gt; now is the time for all good # &gt;&gt; now is the time for all good # &gt;&gt; now is the time for all good </code></pre> <p>So, that shows we can rebuild the rows.</p> <p>Pretending that the words are actually columns from the pipe-delimited file we can make the code do the real thing by taking out the <code>.join(' ')</code>:</p> <pre><code>while (chunks.any?) lines &lt;&lt; chunks.slice!(0, 7) end ap lines # &gt;&gt; [ # &gt;&gt; [0] [ # &gt;&gt; [0] "now", # &gt;&gt; [1] "is", # &gt;&gt; [2] "the", # &gt;&gt; [3] "time", # &gt;&gt; [4] "for", # &gt;&gt; [5] "all", # &gt;&gt; [6] "good" # &gt;&gt; ], # &gt;&gt; [1] [ # &gt;&gt; [0] "now", # &gt;&gt; [1] "is", # &gt;&gt; [2] "the", # &gt;&gt; [3] "time", # &gt;&gt; [4] "for", # &gt;&gt; [5] "all", # &gt;&gt; [6] "good" # &gt;&gt; ], # &gt;&gt; [2] [ # &gt;&gt; [0] "now", # &gt;&gt; [1] "is", # &gt;&gt; [2] "the", # &gt;&gt; [3] "time", # &gt;&gt; [4] "for", # &gt;&gt; [5] "all", # &gt;&gt; [6] "good" # &gt;&gt; ] # &gt;&gt; ] </code></pre>
 

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