# Re: Appending to a CSV file

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-appending-to-a-csv-file/98109>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 12, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-appending-to-a-csv-file/98109 "2006-07-12T16:39:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@BergerS\_Daniel](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/BergerS_Daniel)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-appending-to-a-csv-file/98109/1 "2006-07-12T16:39:44Z")

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> She says that she can’t figure out how to /append/  
> to a CSV file using Ruby’s standard library.
> 
> Does anyone have the magic recipe, or should  
> she be using FasterCSV instead?

File.open(file, ‘a+’) ???

Or, did you mean, she wants to append data to the end of each record?

As for using FasterCSV, I would be inclined to vote “yes”. 🙂

Regards,

Dan

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