From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-07-01T18:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading String Data as a File

2010/7/1 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>:
> 2010/7/1 James Edward Gray II <james@graysoftinc.com>:
>> On Jun 30, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Brian Candler wrote:
>>
>>> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>>>> I'm open to suggestions and I do take patches.
>>>
>>> Specifically, I'd like to see how to parse CSV from stdin. You provide
>>> an example in the opposite direction:
>>>
>>> #   FCSV($stderr)    { |csv_err| csv_err << %w{my data here} }  # to
>>> $stderr
>>
>> On Jun 30, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
>>
>>> On 30.06.2010 17:05, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Do you think it would help if I added Wrapping an IO under the
>>>> Shortcut Interface on this page?
>>>>
>>>> http://fastercsv.rubyforge.org/classes/FasterCSV.html
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> Better?
>>
>> http://fastercsv.rubyforge.org/classes/FasterCSV.html
>
> Perfect!  Do you think it is a good idea to also allow an IO as
> argument to foreach so we can save a block?
>
> FCSV($stdin)     { |csv_in|  csv_in.each { |row| p row } }  # from $stdin
>
> would become
>
> FCSV.foreach($stdin)     { |row| p row }  # from $stdin

Btw, this inspired me to http://gist.github.com/459749

:-)

Cheers

robert


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