From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2009-01-22T07:07:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with FasterCSV monkey patch

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Alfredo Mesen <albemuth@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, I've been trying to monkey patch FCSV to allow escaped colsep
> characters within a field:
>
> FCSV.parse "here\\, it is, other fields"  #need:  [["here\\, it is",
> "other fields"]]
>                 ^

Is there a reason why you can't use normal CSV quoted text escaping?

>> FCSV.parse '"here, it is", other fields'
=> [["here, it is", " other fields"]]

-greg

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