From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2011-01-26T13:11:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Obtain data from .csv

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Kamarulnizam Rahim
<niezam54@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yes im using the same file. And it worked!!! after changing into 'rb'.
> Its quite inconvenient to know that different platform requires
> different format.

That is related to the traditional difference in line-endings between
Unix (\n) and DOS (\r\n).  On Windows, Ruby translates the "\r\n" to
"\n"; sometimes this helps and sometimes it may hinder:

http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/IO.html
"b" |  Binary file mode (may appear with
       |  any of the key letters listed above).
       |  Suppresses EOL <-> CRLF conversion on Windows. And
       |  sets external encoding to ASCII-8BIT unless explicitly
       |  specified.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representations