From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-12-14T18:20:23+09:00
Subject: Re: gsub help

2009/12/13 Siep Korteling <s.korteling@gmail.com>:
> yermej wrote:
>> On Dec 13, 2:34�pm, Kvetch Kvetch <kve...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am reading in a file that is basically a csv file but the delimiter is
>>> spaces. �I am also using fastercsv to parse the file into an array.
>>
>> Check out the docs for fastercsv - http://fastercsv.rubyforge.org/ -
>> it looks like the FasterCSV class has default values for separator and
>> quote characters. You should be able to change those to ' ' & '^',
>> respectively.
>
> Exactly. Like this:
>
> ar=FasterCSV.read( path_to_file,{ :col_sep => " ", :quote_char =>'^' })

You can omit brackets to make it look a little better:

ar = FasterCSV.read( path_to_file, :col_sep => " ", :quote_char =>'^' )

or, maybe a bit more efficient because you read line by line:

CSV.foreach(path_to_file, :col_sep => " ") do |row|
  ...
end

Note, in 1.9.* FasterCSV has replaced CSV which is why you can use CSV there.

Kind regards

robert

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