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Best way to read CSV in Ruby. FasterCSV?

Is it possible to have Ruby read through a CSV file, line by line and use the contents of the line to set as different variables?

e.g. one line is Matt,Masters,18-04-1993 and I want to split the line and use:

• Matt = firstname
• Masters = surname
• 18-04-1993 = dob

so far I have:

require 'uri/http'
require 'csv'

File.open("filename.csv").readlines.each do |line|

d = line.split(",")

puts d

end

Answer 1

You should be able to do it

File.open("filename.csv").readlines.each do |line|
  CSV.parse do |line|
    firstname, surname, dob = line
    #you can access the above 3 variables now
  end
end

Now will be able to use firstname, surname and dob in the block.