Changing field separator/delimiter in exported CSV using Ruby CSV
Here's an example using a tab instead.
To a file:
CSV.open("myfile.csv", "w", {:col_sep => "\t"}) do |csv| csv << ["row", "of", "CSV", "data"] csv << ["another", "row"] # ...endTo a string:
csv_string = CSV.generate(:col_sep => "\t") do |csv| csv << ["row", "of", "CSV", "data"] csv << ["another", "row"] # ...endHere's the current documentation on CSV: http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/csv/rdoc/index.html
CSV::Writer has a generate method, which accepts a separator string as argument.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby# +++ ruby 1.8 version +++require "csv"outfile = File.open('csvout', 'wb') CSV::Writer.generate(outfile, '|') do |csv| csv << ['c1', nil, '', '"', "\r\n", 'c2'] endoutfile.close