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

Stripping \r characters seemed to work for me

CSV.parse(File.read('filename').gsub(/\r/, ' ')) do |row|
  ...
end