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

I had similar problem. I got an error:

"error_message"=>"Illegal quoting in line 1.", "error_class"=>"CSV::MalformedCSVError"

The problem was the file had Windows line endings, which are of course other than Unix. What helped me was defining row_sep: "\r\n":

CSV.open(path, 'w', headers: :first_row, col_sep: ';', quote_char: '"', row_sep: "\r\n")