From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2004-06-14T18:03:18+09:00
Subject: Re: How to read a .csv file into a 2D array?

Hi,

Todd Gardner wrote:
> How can I read the following text from a .csv file into a 2D array?
> 
> Is there a prewritten routine allowing me not to have to parse the file myself?

With ruby/1.8.1;
% ruby18 -rcsv -e 'p CSV.open("text.tsv", "r", ?\t).collect { |row| 
row.to_a }'

With ruby/1.9;
% ruby -rcsv -e 'p CSV.parse(File.read("text.tsv"), ?\t)'

A method CSV#parse for parsing string at once (without stream reading) 
is recently added.  I'll add to ruby/1.8.2.

Regards,
// NaHi