Ruby comes with a standard library called csv to make it easy to read files with comman separated values csv file in this csv file the 3rd fields in every row is a number.
Ruby csv write append.
Call dup before passing if you need a new string.
Note that a passed string is modified by this method.
This constructor will wrap either a string or io object passed in data for reading and or writing.
This method wraps a string you provide or an empty default string in a csv object which is passed to the provided block.
Csv stands for comma separated values and csv files contain rows of text.
It offers tools to enable you to read and write to and from strings or io objects as needed.
In addition to the csv instance methods several io methods are delegated.
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Ruby stores each table row as an array with each cell as a string element of the array.
Each row and the comma separated strings within each row can be thought of as a single record in a database.
Note that a wrapped string will be positioned at at the beginning for reading.
Each row has strings separated by commas.
Csv read method to read the complete file.
Note that before writing a ruby code you have to include the declaration to include csv in the program file.
Working with csv files in ruby.
This library provides a complete interface to csv files and data.
This tutorial can help give you a step by step guide to using ruby.
Add this line to your application s gemfile.