From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2011-01-12T07:13:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Read csv file. Beginner's HELP!!

On Jan 11, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Kamarulnizam Rahim wrote:

> Hai,

Hello.

> Im new to Ruby programming.

Welcome.

> I got a job to create a program that can obtain the content from a .csv file into .yml file. However at this stage, im having trouble reading the .csv file. Here is the code i use:
> 
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> 
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'csv'
> 
> CSV.open('C:/Users/nizam/test_q.csv', 'r') do |row|
>    p row
>  end
> 
> puts "Hello World"
> 
> Here is the error message i get:
> <#CSV io_type:File io_path:"C:/Users/nizam/test_q.csv" encoding:UTF-8
> lineno:0 col_sep:"," row_sep:"\n" quote_char:"\"">

That's not actually an error message.  It's an inspection of the CSV object open() passed into your block.  It looks like you were expecting a row of data though, so switch open() to foreach() and that should get you going.

James Edward Gray II