From: Max Russell <thedossone@...>
Date: 2007-09-13T00:39:01+09:00
Subject: Re: CVS parsing, counting rows and row items

James Gray wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Felix Windt wrote:
> 
>> If all you want to do is count rows in a CSV file, you're just  
>> counting
>> lines in a file and don't need the CSV library.
> 
> CSV fields can contain line ending characters which could throw of
> your counts.  Use a CSV parser unless you are sure about the data
> content.
> 
> James Edward Gray II

def parsecv(filehandle)
  csvarrays = CSV.read(filehandle)
  numrows = (csvarrays.length) - 1
  return numrows
end

I ended up using a CSV.read method because it returns an array of 
arrays. This makes it quite easy to lop of the titles row returning a 
row count.

Now to start getting the count of individual terms from a column...
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