FasterCSV

I am wanting to use faster_csv to read two csv files and
append columns to the first from the second and write to a temp file.

for example,

1st Csv

id,name_first,name_last,email\n
1,Dave,Wilson,[email protected]\n
2,James,Stevens,[email protected]\n

2nd Csv

address_street,address_city,address_state\n
105 Street,Little Rock,AR\n
205 Street,Dallas,TX\n

Output

id,name_first,name_last,email,address_street,address_city,address_state\n
1,Dave,Wilson,[email protected],105 Street,Little Rock,AR\n
2,James,Stevens,[email protected],205 Street,Dallas,TX\n

I was hoping some one could point in me in the right direction on how to
get started with this.

Here is what I have so far… As you can see that is just the first half
of the data.

require “faster_csv”

class CSVReadWrite

def readwrite
tempfile = “csvs/temp.csv”
if File.exists?(“csvs/temp.csv”)
File.delete(“csvs/temp.csv”)
end
File.new(“csvs/temp.csv”, “w”)

filenameusers = “csvs/Users.csv”
filenameaddresses = “csvs/Addresses.csv”
FasterCSV.foreach(filenameusers) do |line|

@results = line[0], line[1] , line[2]

 FasterCSV.open("csvs/tempout.csv", "a") do |csv|
  csv << @results

   end

end

r1 = CSVReadWrite.new()
r1.readwrite

end

On May 7, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Kris W. wrote:

,name_first,name_last,email,address_street,address_city,address_state
\n
1,Dave,Wilson,[email protected],105 Street,Little Rock,AR\n
2,James,Stevens,[email protected],205 Street,Dallas,TX\n

I was hoping some one could point in me in the right direction on
how to
get started with this.

What about something like:

require “rubygems”
require “faster_csv”

users = FCSV.open(“csvs/Users.csv”)
addresses = FCSV.open(“csvs/Addresses.csv”)
joined = FCSV.open(“csvs/temp.csv”, “w”)

while (user = users.gets) and (address = addresses.gets)
joined << user.fields + address.fields
end

[users, addresses, joined].map { |csv| csv.close }

END

Hope that helps.

James Edward G. II

James G. wrote:

On May 7, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Kris W. wrote:

,name_first,name_last,email,address_street,address_city,address_state
\n
1,Dave,Wilson,[email protected],105 Street,Little Rock,AR\n
2,James,Stevens,[email protected],205 Street,Dallas,TX\n

I was hoping some one could point in me in the right direction on
how to
get started with this.

What about something like:

require “rubygems”
require “faster_csv”

users = FCSV.open(“csvs/Users.csv”)
addresses = FCSV.open(“csvs/Addresses.csv”)
joined = FCSV.open(“csvs/temp.csv”, “w”)

while (user = users.gets) and (address = addresses.gets)
joined << user.fields + address.fields
end

[users, addresses, joined].map { |csv| csv.close }

END

Hope that helps.

James Edward G. II

That helps immensely.

Thank you for your quick response…
I have just started using fastercsv as opposed to the built-in csv …

I have a lot yet to do with this, but that gets me started.