trouble with results of .split(" ") in Ruby - arrays

Question

I am just starting to learn ruby and I am having troubles splitting my strings by spaces.
First I read in my file and break them up by the newline character :
inputfile = File.open("myfile.in")
filelines = inputfile.read.split("\n")
Then I try to read each of the two numbers individually:
filelines.each_with_index {|val, index| do_something(val, index)}
Where do_something is defined as:
def do_something(value, index)
if index == 0
numcases = value
puts numcases
else
value.split(" ")
puts value
puts value[0] #trying to access the first number
puts value[1] #trying to access the second number
end
end
but with a smaller input file like this one,
42
4 2
11 19
0 10
10 0
-10 0
0 -10
-76 -100
5 863
987 850
My outputs ends up looking like this:
42
4 2
4
11 19
1
1
0 10
0
10 0
1
0
-10 0
-
1
0 -10
0
-76 -100
-
7
5 863
5
987 850
9
8
so what I am understanding is that it is breaking it up character by character, rather than by spaces. I know it can read in the whole line, as I can print the contents of the array in its entirety, but I dont know what I am doing wrong.
I have also tried replacing value.split(" ") with:
value.gsub(/\s+/m, ' ').strip.split(" ")
value.split
value.split("\s")
Using RubyMine 2017.3.2

Answer 1

As was said in the comments, plus some other points, with an idiomatic code sample:
lines = File.readlines('myfile.in')
header_line, data_lines = lines[0], lines[1..-1]
num_cases = header_line.to_i
arrays_of_number_strings = data_lines.map(&:split)
arrays_of_numbers = arrays_of_number_strings.map do |array_of_number_strings|
array_of_number_strings.map(&:to_i)
end
puts "#{num_cases} cases in file."
arrays_of_numbers.each { |a| p a }
File.readlines is super handy!
I don't think you were calling to_i on the header information, that
will be important.
The data_lines.map(&:split) will return an array of the numbers as strings, but then you'll need to convert those strings to numbers too.
The p a in the final line will use the Array#inspect method, which is handy for viewing arrays as arrays, e.g. [12, 34].