From: Julio Capote <jcapote@...>
Date: 2006-09-09T12:58:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing a tab delimited file with ruby csv?

Cory Chamblin wrote:
> On 9/8/06, Julio Capote <jcapote@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ... I'd
>> really appricieate it if someone can post a link to a tutorial or a
>> quick code sample detailing how to tell csv to use tabs as a delimiter.
> 
> I have never used it prior to trying this for you (so YMMV), but
> (AFAICT) if you need to use the CSV library included with Ruby, the
> third parameter in CSV#open is the delimiter, e.g.:
> 
> CSV.open('whatever.csv','r',"\t").each do |field|
> puts field
> end
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Cory

I was also wondering if I could throw CSV.open an object instead of a 
file, for instance, I get my csv file from another site using open-uri:
open(url) do |file|
	@body = file.read
end


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