From: "grim7reaper (Sylvain Laperche)" Date: 2013-08-14T11:53:57+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:56609] [ruby-trunk - Bug #8784][Open] CSV - Empty fields are discarded when col_sep is a space Issue #8784 has been reported by grim7reaper (Sylvain Laperche). ---------------------------------------- Bug #8784: CSV - Empty fields are discarded when col_sep is a space https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8784 Author: grim7reaper (Sylvain Laperche) Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27 revision 41674) [x86_64-linux] Backport: 1.9.3: UNKNOWN, 2.0.0: UNKNOWN When using space as column delimiter, empty fields are discarded. With other delimiters, like comma, empty fields are correctly retrieved. The following code reproduces the problem: ******************************************************************************** #!/usr/bin/env ruby require 'csv' print(CSV.parse('2009,2,3,8,0,,30.1,,')) puts print(CSV.parse('2009 2 3 8 0 30.1 ', col_sep: ' ')) puts ******************************************************************************** *Expected output* [["2009", "2", "3", "8", "0", nil, "30.1", nil, nil]] [["2009", "2", "3", "8", "0", nil, "30.1", nil, nil]] *Current output* [["2009", "2", "3", "8", "0", nil, "30.1", nil, nil]] [["2009", "2", "3", "8", "0", "30.1", nil]] -- http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/