Extract details from a weird data format

gistfile1.rb

# Written because I couldn't bear the thought of my mother cutting a pasting
# four hundred key-value pairs from a text file in to Excel.

# Usage: ruby extract.rb < data

class Person
    attr_accessor :full_name, :first_name, :other_names, :name_tokens, :company, :email

    def first_name
        full_name.split(' ').first if full_name
    end
    
    def other_names 
       if full_name
            if a = full_name.split(' ')
                return a.slice!(1..a.length) if a.is_a? Array
            end
       end
    end

    def complete?
        (self.instance_variables === [:@full_name, :@company, :@email])
    end

    def to_tsv
        puts [full_name, first_name, other_names, company, email].join("\t")
    end
end

p = nil

STDIN.read.scan(/\[(\w+)\] => (.+)?$/).each_with_index do |a, index|
   
    p = Person.new if p == nil

    if p.complete?
        puts p.to_tsv
        p = nil
    end

    p.full_name = a[1] if a.first == 'name' 
    p.company   = a[1] if a.first == 'company'
    p.email     = a[1] if a.first == 'email'

end