From: Chris Carter <cdcarter@...>
Date: 2007-08-16T12:40:03+09:00
Subject: Re: grep a csv?

On 8/15/07, Michael Linfield <globyy3000@hotmail.com> wrote:
> If i had a huge CSV file, and i wanted to pull out say all the lines
> that contained the word "Blah1" and throw it in a temporary file what
> would be the best approached. My thoughts were to use
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'ruport'
> require 'ruport/util'
>
> t=Ruport::Data:Table.load("filename.csv")
> t.grep(/Blah1/)
>
> ### this sadly only returned an output of  => []
>
> any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
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>
>

File.readlines('filename.csv').grep(/Blah1/)

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