FasterCSV - write tab delimited files

Ruby
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Hi,

I’m using FasterCSV to write out a tab delimited file. For empty
fields, does anyone know if there’s a way to not put in empty quotes
("") for nil or blank fields?

Thanks

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On Jul 1, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Cs Webgrl wrote:

I’m using FasterCSV to write out a tab delimited file. For empty
fields, does anyone know if there’s a way to not put in empty quotes
("") for nil or blank fields?

The behavior you describe, not quoting empty fields, is the default for
FasterCSV:

require “rubygems”
=> true

require “faster_csv”
=> true

FCSV.generate(:col_sep => “\t”) { |csv| csv << [1, 2, nil, 4] }
=> “1\t2\t\t4\n”

James Edward G. II