From: sa 125 <s_ayalon@...>
Date: 2008-11-20T21:38:23+09:00
Subject: How to use fastercsv to get rows as hashes?

Hi - I'm fairly new to ruby and trying to read a csv file using the
fastercsv gem. I managed to read the rows arrays of data using:

require 'fastercsv'

def read_csv
  path_to_file = "/home/work/some_file.csv"

  # open the csv file to read
  csv = FasterCSV.open(path_to_file, "r")

  # do stuff on rows as arrays
  while row = csv.readline
    #... row will be ["cell1", "cell2", "cell3", ...]
  end
end

What I'm trying to understand is how do I get the row as a hash where
the keys are the column headers (so I don't have to remember where each
column sits in the array):

#...inside loop
col1 = row['some column']
col2 = row['another column']
#...

I'm sure there's a way to do this, but the RDoc wasn't much help. I'd
appreciate any tips - thanks!
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