From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2007-09-13T00:15:17+09:00
Subject: Re: CVS parsing, counting rows and row items

On Sep 12, 9:05 am, Max Russell <thedoss...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have some CSV data which looks like the following (it is the output
> from the RMTrack defect management tool):
>
> Column titles:
> Issue #  Date & Time Opened  Summary  Created by User  Assigned To
> Resolution  Date & Time Closed
>
> example data:
> 1074  16/05/2006  Something is broken  import  bob  Ignore  26/03/2007
> 1807  17/07/2006  Another thing doesn't work  rsmith  hmaguire  Ignore
> 27/03/2007

CSV stands for comma-separated values.  Where are the commas?

To get the number of lines in a file:

IO.readlines('my_file').size