From: anne001 Date: 2005-11-21T11:12:24+09:00 Subject: Re: Parsing excel CVS data on a mac OSX to extract blocks of cells PS: I have found a tutorial which should help me through part 1. It extracts columns from a CVS file, and working my way through it, I should figure out how to use split. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2003/09/18/ruby_csv.html?page=1 I would love some pointers to question 2.