Never been to DZone Snippets before?

Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world

Make a list into a line suitable for a CSV file in Ruby (See related posts)

Formats a list/array as a string suitable for one row of a CSV file

def comma_separate(items)
  items.map! do |item|
    if item.is_a?(String) and item =~ /[",]/
      '"' + item.gsub(/"/, '""') + '"'
    else
      item
    end
  end
  items.join(',')
end
to ruby csv by timmorgan on Tue May 16 19:45:21 -0400 2006

You need to create an account or log in to post comments to this site.


Click here to browse all 5059 code snippets

Related Posts