Ruby unable to parse a CSV file: CSV::MalformedCSVError (Illegal quoting in line 1.)

Question

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Ruby ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-09-23 revision 33323) [i686-linux]

Rails 3.2.9

Following is

Answer 1

I just had an issue like this and discovered that CSV does not like spaces between the col-sep and the quote character. Once I removed those everything went fine. So I had:

12,  "N",  12, "Pacific/Majuro"

but once I gsubed out the spaces using

.gsub(/,\s+\"/,',\"')

resulting in

12,"N",  12,"Pacific/Majuro"

everything went fine.