CSV - Unquoted fields do not allow \r or \n (line 2)

Question

Trying to parse a CSV file, but still getting the error message Unquoted fields do not allow \\r or \\n (line 2)..

I found here at SO similar topic,

Answer 1

In my case I had to provide encoding, and a quote char that was guaranteed to not occur in data

CSV.read("file.txt", 'rb:bom|UTF-16LE', {:row_sep => "\r\n", :col_sep => "\t", :quote_char => "\x00"})

Answer 2

Another simple solution to fix the weird formatting caused by Excel is to copy and paste the data into Google spreadsheet and then download it as a CSV.