From: John Mcleod Date: 2009-11-19T07:18:17+09:00 Subject: Re: using FasterCSV to clean CSV file Well, As you suggested below, it was a problem with encoding. > I'm betting your problem is one of encodings. Do you have some > non-ASCII data in the spreadsheet? If that data is not UTF-8, it could > be tripping up FasterCSV's parser. What I did was I took the file and opened it in 'TextEdit' a Mac version of MS-Notepad. Saved the file in UTF-8 and everything took off. I'm going to try the same task in MS-Notepad (when I fire up the Windows VM). Thank you again for all your support. John -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.