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Tim Morgan http://timmorgan.org

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Make a list into a line suitable for a CSV file in Ruby

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

   1  
   2  def comma_separate(items)
   3    items.map! do |item|
   4      if item.is_a?(String) and item =~ /[",]/
   5        '"' + item.gsub(/"/, '""') + '"'
   6      else
   7        item
   8      end
   9    end
  10    items.join(',')
  11  end
to ruby csv by timmorgan on May 16, 2006
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