From: Jens Auer <jens.auer-news@...>
Date: 2006-03-28T23:03:56+09:00
Subject: Chaning the quote-character in csv parsing

Hi,
I have a bunch of files containing lines as comma-seperated values. 
Unfortunately, the character used for quoting is a single quote (') and 
not the double quote ("). How can I tell the csv library (or fastercsv 
or any other csv-parsing library) which character is used for quoting? 
Some of the files contain fields like 'quoted, but with comma', which 
are seperated into two fields at the comma:
irb(main):003:0> line = "one, 'quoted', 'quoted, but with comma'"
=> "one, 'quoted', 'quoted, but with comma'"
irb(main):006:0> CSV::parse_line('some words "some quoted text" some 
more words', ' ')
=> ["some", "words", "some quoted text", "some", "more", "words"]
irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> require_gem 'fastercsv'
=> true
irb(main):004:0> line.parse_csv
=> ["one", " 'quoted'", " 'quoted", " but with comma'"]

The output should be ["one", "'quoted'", "'quoted, but with comma'"]