From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2003-01-23T19:43:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Feature request: Array.to_h (2nd part!)

Hi, Gavin,

> From: "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 9:03 PM

> Isn't there a CSV processing library available?  I imagine an API
> would provide hash-like access:
> 
>   data = CSV.new(filename)
>   data.each do |record|
>     # access record[:year], etc.
>   end

There is a csv processing module here:
http://www.ruby-lang.org/raa/list.rhtml?name=csv
But it doesn't do anything special treatment about
"the first line as column header."  You must write like below now.

  require 'csv'
  year = 5
  CSV.open(filename, "r") do |record|
    p record[year]
  end

Regards,
// NaHi