reading in from csv files

[fugee ohu]

csv files have their commas pre-escaped so i don't have to worry about there being commas in data, i can just use the split function to read in?

[Hassan Schroeder]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 4:09 PM, fugee ohu <fuge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> csv files have their commas pre-escaped so i don't have to worry about there
> being commas in data, i can just use the split function to read in?

Maybe.

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require 'csv'

csv_string = CSV.generate do |csv|
csv << ['dog', 'barking\, all night', 'woof\n']
csv << ['cat', 'meowing incessantly', 'meow\n']
end

csv_string.split("\n").each { |line| puts("# of fields:
#{line.split(',').length}\n") }
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Maybe not. 😀

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[fugee ohu]

 So then right, this isn't the desired result

# of fields: 4

# of fields: 3

I tried adding more backslashes to 'barking\, all night' barking\\, barking\\\, barking \\\\, none of them got different results they all said 4 and 3