Ruby unable to parse a CSV file: CSV::MalformedCSVError (Illegal quoting in line 1.)

Question

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Ruby ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-09-23 revision 33323) [i686-linux]

Rails 3.2.9

Following is

Answer 1

Anand, thank you for the encoding suggestion. This solved the illegal quoting problem for me.

Note: If you want the iterator to skip over the header row add headers: :first_row, like so:

CSV.foreach("test.csv", encoding: "bom|utf-8", headers: :first_row)