From: Phil Rhoades <phil@...>
Date: 2008-01-10T22:47:08+09:00
Subject: Multiline (block) CSV file processing

People,

I am looking for suggestions for Ruby utilities (and gems?) for a
flexible, easy method of processing multi-line blocks of CSV text eg in
a CSV file, lines 1-5 are the first block and lines 6-10 are the second
block etc.  Then for each block I want to:

- print the first field of line 1
- second field of line 2
- fifth field of line 3
- tenth field of line 4
- twelfth field of line 5

as fields of a new line.

Of course I could do this myself from basics but I thought there might
be existing tools that would allow me to do things like easily for
different block sizes, different fields on each line of the block etc

Thanks,

Phil.
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