From: Niklas Baumstark <niklas.baumstark@...>
Date: 2008-08-04T20:37:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Odd CSV behavior

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Hello,

Binh Ly <binh@pigbaby.net> wrote:
> I download a file, in CSV format, from a website and when I try to parse
> with CSV and Faster CSV I get the following error.
>=20
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/csv.rb:639:in `get_row': CSV::IllegalFormatError
> (CSV::IllegalFormatError)
>   from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/csv.rb:556:in `each'
>   from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/csv.rb:531:in `parse'
>   from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/csv.rb:311:in `open_reader'
>   from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/csv.rb:85:in `open'
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> But if I open the  CSV file in TextMate, select all of the contents,
> paste and save that content into a new CSV file, created with TextMate,
> the CSV parser can process it just fine.

seems like a charset issue. maybe you should compare the two files (origina=
l and after copying with textmate) regarding character encoding and line en=
dings. maybe even using a diff tool. this should help you figure out the ex=
act problem, if you really need to know it.=20

Greetings,
Niklas

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