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From: Cs Webgrl on 1 Jul 2010 16:15
Hi,

I'm using FasterCSV to write out a tab delimited file. For empty
fields, does anyone know if there's a way to not put in empty quotes
("") for nil or blank fields?

Thanks
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From: James Edward Gray II on 1 Jul 2010 16:22
On Jul 1, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Cs Webgrl wrote:

> I'm using FasterCSV to write out a tab delimited file. For empty
> fields, does anyone know if there's a way to not put in empty quotes
> ("") for nil or blank fields?

The behavior you describe, not quoting empty fields, is the default for FasterCSV:

>> require "rubygems"
=> true
>> require "faster_csv"
=> true
>> FCSV.generate(:col_sep => "\t") { |csv| csv << [1, 2, nil, 4] }
=> "1\t2\t\t4\n"

James Edward Gray II
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