Ruby: How can I process a CSV file with “bad commas”?

Question

I need to process a CSV file from FedEx.com containing shipping history. Unfortunately FedEx doesn\'t seem to actually test its CSV files as it doesn\'t quote strings that have

Answer 1

Perhaps something along these lines..

using gsub to change the ', ' to something else

ruby-1.9.2-p0 > "foo,bar,baz,pop, blah,foobar".gsub(/,\ /,'| ').split(',')
[
    [0] "foo",
    [1] "bar",
    [2] "baz",
    [3] "pop| blah",
    [4] "foobar"
]

and then remove the | after words.