From: Seth Goings <redmine@...>
Date: 2010-03-16T01:22:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28668] [Bug #2966] CSV reports illegal quoting on line ...

Bug #2966: CSV reports illegal quoting on line ...
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/2966

Author: Seth Goings
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
Assigned to: James Gray
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [i386-mswin32]

I have a line of code:
@array = CSV.read("#{@dir}/#{@file}")

Which eventually reads line 24 (below) in file attached to this bug:
BBBP,004,/etc/release,"LSB_VERSION="core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-2.0-x86_64:core-3.0-x86_64""

This raises a MalformedCSVError, "Illegal quoting on line #{lineno + 1}."

I understand the issue of the nested quotes and how the line is being parsed, but I don't see an issue with how this CSV line is written. Should this sort of line be parse-able with a csv library? If not, can/should the library fail nicely, instead of ruining the whole "read" call?


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