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

""" When I open up the exported CSV in vim, all the text appears on one line, with ^M appearing between lines.

From the docs, it seems that you can provide open with a row separator; however I am unsure what it should be in this case. """

Read back a sentence ... ^M means keyboard Ctrl-M aka '\x0D' (M is the 13th letter of the ASCII alphabet; 0x0D == 13) aka ASCII CR (carriage return) aka '\r' ... IOW what Macs used to use as a line terminator before OS X.