Ruby: cannot parse Excel file exported as CSV in OS X

Question

I\'m using Ruby\'s CSV library to parse some CSV. I have a seemingly well-formed CSV file that I created by exporting an Excel file as CSV.

However CSV.open(filen

Answer 1

Try: CSV.open('filename', 'r', ?,, ?\r)

As cantlin notes, for Ruby 2 it's:

CSV.new('file.csv', 'r', :col_sep => ?,, :row_sep => ?\r)

I'm pretty sure these will DTRT for you. You can also "fix" the file itself (in which case keep the old open) with the following vim command: :%s/\r/\r/g

Yes, I know that command looks like a total no-op, but it will work.