From: Armin Armbruster <armin.armbruster@...>
Date: 2007-05-24T03:54:11+09:00
Subject: Reading files with comments with FasterCSV

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Hi,
 
I'm trying to read csv files using FasterCSV.
I have two problems:
 
1. Some of my files have a few lines of comments before the actual header.
Is there a way to read the whole file at once, for example with
csv = FasterCSV.read("filename", opt)
and have the comment lines ignored (either by telling FasterCSV to ignore the first n lines or giving FasterCSV a string or regular expression to match the beginning of the header).
 
 
2. Some of my files have no header, but I still would like to read them as a FasterCSV::Table, rather than an Array of Arrays for ease of column access and auto-conversion.
How can I do that and is there a way to add a header?
 
Thanks,
Armin
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