From: Salil Gaikwad Date: 2009-03-01T22:06:19+09:00 Subject: Re: How to find the specific row of CSV file. thanx james & craig it works 4 me but is it right to use for a csv file which has more than 5000 rows? also I use following method to read CSV file. @parsed_file=FasterCSV.read("#{RAILS_ROOT}/.....",:col_sep=>",", :quote_char=>",", :force_quotes=>true) @parsed_file.each_with_index do |row, index| // more code here end My problem is that when there is a special characters in csv row-field it gives me either an error or wrong value for ex. "\".63\"" for .63 what should i do so that it accept and hence read all the characters & special characters so that i save it into the database(mysql) correctly. Regards, Salil -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.