From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2002-02-14T01:54:37+09:00
Subject: Re: (CSV) text file processing...

Bob wrote:
> 
> I am looking for an example of (csv)text file processing. What I am
> specifically after is how to take a file with a CSV format and parse
> it out. This will be used with MySQL to help a customer upload a file
> for an inventory and then the Ruby script will parse it and place the
> values into the appropriate fields in the database.
> 
> Any such examples out there?
> 
> Bob

I read about it in Jeffrey Friedls "Mastering Regular Expressions"
(O'Reilly).
The book deals with Perl RegExes, but most of the material might well be
applied to Ruby's RegExes, too.

Stephan