From: Ryan Leavengood <mrcode@...>
Date: 2005-08-03T02:41:30+09:00
Subject: Re: csv to hash

ou_ryperd said:
> Hi
> I have a csv file with two fields per line. What would the most
> effective way be to read it into a hash variable ? e.g.:
> 10000,A
> 10001,B
> 10002,C
>
> I have searched ruby-talk and comp.lang.ruby and did not find a
> suitable example.
> thanks in advance

Ruby comes with a CSV library:

require 'csv'
hash = {}
CSV.foreach('test.csv') do |row|
  hash[row[0]] = row[1]
end
p hash

Ryan