Newbie: fastcsv: Read rows, print rows

Ruby
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New to Ruby. It probably shows. Trying to accomplish some simple
initial tasks, and study.

Objectives

  1. Read rows from a CSV file
  2. Write rows to STDOUT

A cat() equivalent.

I’ve been looking but don’t find it. Are there any good tutorials on
using fastcsv? This might be a good candidate for such.

Many thanks!

require
‘fastercsv’

fastercsv.open(“rfile2”, “r”) do |csv|
csvData.each{|row| puts “row: ${row}”}
end

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On Jun 29, 2007, at 1:50 PM, [email protected] wrote:

New to Ruby. It probably shows.

Welcome to Ruby!

Trying to accomplish some simple initial tasks, and study.

Objectives

  1. Read rows from a CSV file
  2. Write rows to STDOUT

A cat() equivalent.

I’ve been looking but don’t find it. Are there any good tutorials on
using fastcsv? This might be a good candidate for such.

There’s the documentation:

http://fastercsv.rubyforge.org/

You’ll find basic reading and writing information on this page in
particular:

http://fastercsv.rubyforge.org/classes/FasterCSV.html

There are also some examples in the source:

http://viewvc.rubyforge.mmmultiworks.com/cgi/viewvc.cgi/trunk/
examples/?root=fastercsv

require
‘fastercsv’

The above should be on one line. You may also need to add a:

require ‘rubygems’

before requiring FasterCSV, depending on your environment.

fastercsv.open(“rfile2”, “r”) do |csv|

There is an error is on the line above, which needs to be:

FasterCSV.open…

    csvData.each{|row| puts "row: ${row}"}

Change csvData to csv in the line above. Also replace ${row} with #
{row.inspect}.

end

That should get you running.

You can do this a little easier using foreach():

FCSV.foreach(“rfile2”) do |row|
p row
end

Hope that helps.

James Edward G. II

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Thanks for such a rapid, patient response!

You certainly helped me get “unstuck”. Appreciate the references. I
had found the doc pages but was still laboring.

For the record, here is my working code. No rocket science, but may
be useful to someone.

All the best!

require 'rubygems' require 'fastercsv'

infile = “infile2.csv”

FasterCSV.open(infile, “r”) do |row|
row.each{|row| puts “row: #{row.inspect}”}
end
</
code>

On Jun 29, 12:06 pm, James Edward G. II [email protected]
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[email protected] wrote:

require 'rubygems' require 'fastercsv'

infile = “infile2.csv”

FasterCSV.open(infile, “r”) do |row|
row.each{|row| puts “row: #{row.inspect}”}
end
</
code>

Just be aware about the fact that row is changed after row.each

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Just be aware about the fact that row is changed after row.each

Thanks for the warning!

There must be a fastercsv feature to get rid of the encapsulating ’
characters (e.g. the single quote).

FasterCSV.open(infile, “r”) do |row|

    row.each do |

field|
field.each do |field|
print “|”
print “#{field}”

end
puts “|”
end
end

The output:
|‘field 1’|‘field 2’|‘field 3’|

I want:
|field 1|field 2|field 3|

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On Jul 16, 2007, at 5:53 PM, drub wrote:

The output:
|‘field 1’|‘field 2’|‘field 3’|

I want:
|field 1|field 2|field 3|

The single quote character is not part of the CSV specification, so
they are not removed. I’m afraid you will need to pluck those out by
hand.

James Edward G. II