Ruby comes with a built in csv library.
Ruby csv write to file.
This is what a csv file looks like.
It offers tools to enable you to read and write to and from strings or io objects as needed.
Ruby comes with a standard library called csv to make it easy to read files with comman separated values csv file in this csv file the 3rd fields in every row is a number.
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If there is a comma separated data as a string object in ruby the csv parse method will convert the data into the ruby representation of csv.
Add this line to your application s gemfile.
You can read a file directly.
This method is intended as the primary interface for reading csv files.
Note that a passed string is modified by this method.
Call dup before passing if you need a new string.
You pass a path and any options you wish to set for the read.
This method also understands an additional encoding parameter that you can use to specify the encoding of the data in the file to be read.
Remember that everything processed from the csv file is a string which includes the numbers too.
This library provides a complete interface to csv files and data.
You can use the block to append csv rows to the string and when the block exits the final string will be returned.
This method wraps a string you provide or an empty default string in a csv object which is passed to the provided block.
Each row of file will be passed to the provided block in turn.
Parse method converts data into ruby csv.