From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-12-03T00:08:59+09:00
Subject: Re: FasterCSV col separator

On Dec 2, 2005, at 2:34 AM, Kev Jackson wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm using FasterCSV and I can't seem to get the syntax correct for  
> using '|' (the pipe character) for the column separator
>
> I have
>
> FasterCSV.parse(csv_file, { :col_sep => "|" }) do |row|
>  p row
> end
>
> but this fails with
>
> invalid regular expression; there's no previous pattern, to which  
> '+' would define cardinality at 4: /\A|+/
>
> is this a known bug?

It's now known and fixed.  Update to the freshly uploaded FasterCSV  
0.1.4 and this should be just a bad memory.  I've added test cases to  
monitor this, so it shouldn't happen again.  Sorry about that.

James Edward Gray II