From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-09-24T05:25:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Article on oreilly.net on how to build Unix tools with Ruby

> If anyone wants one, I've got a DelimParser class that handles
different
> delimiters and quote marks as well as delimiters, escaped
characters, and
> doubled quotes that appear in the data.
> 
> It doesn't use regexps. It's a simple state machine that walks 
> through each character in the input.
> 
> Ask and thou shall receive.

I'd like to get a copy of that please. 

I've used http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=csv in the past,
and while it works for my feeble CSV needs, I find the interface
somewhat [overly] complex.


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