From: Thiel Chang <schang@...>
Date: 2009-12-14T01:44:09+09:00
Subject: Re: FasterCSV question: skip headers

Hi James,

Thanks for your response. I tried the header option. It worked,.

Kind regards,

Thiel


James Edward Gray II schreef:
> On Dec 13, 2009, at 6:24 AM, Thiel Chang wrote:
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>> I am refactoring a class that's  using Fastercsv to read a csv file. How do I skip the first (header) line. Now I'm using a helpvariable skipHEADER but I want a more elegant solution .
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> If I understand the question correctly, I would recommend setting :headers => true as a FasterCSV option.  This will cause it to read the headers in the first row, but not return them.  You can then refer to columns by name, instead of by number.
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> Hope that helps.
>
> James Edward Gray II
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