How to read csv file which has :quote_char in data field

Ruby
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How to do this using fastercsv?

i want to read data from a csv file and save it into the database.
my file xyz.csv contains following line
,“xyz”,
i want o/p of above row
as follows
nil,nil,nil,nil,"“xyz”", nil,nil,nil,nil

currently i get
nil,nil,nil,nil,"“xyz”",""

i am using following method to read the data
@parsed_file=FasterCSV.read(“xyz.csv”, :col_sep =>",",
:quote_char=>’,’, :force_quotes => true)

Regards
Salil

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On Mar 2, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Salil G. wrote:

How to do this using fastercsv?

It’s not really a good for for FasterCSV for the same reason’s I
explained in this message:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/329678

i want to read data from a csv file and save it into the database.
my file xyz.csv contains following line
,“xyz”,
i want o/p of above row
as follows
nil,nil,nil,nil,“"xyz"”, nil,nil,nil,nil

currently i get
nil,nil,nil,nil,“"xyz"”,“”

This seems to work:

%Q{,“xyz”,}.split(“,”, -1).map { |f| f.empty? ? nil : f }
=> [nil, nil, nil, nil, “"xyz"”, nil, nil, nil, nil]

i am using following method to read the data
@parsed_file=FasterCSV.read(“xyz.csv”, :col_sep =>“,”,
:quote_char=>‘,’, :force_quotes => true)

Again, do not set :quote_char and :col_sep to the same value. That’s
impossible to parse. Also :force_quotes is only used when writing
CSV, not reading it.

James Edward G. II