Forums | Admin Discussion Forums: open-discussion Start New Thread Nested Flat Threaded Ultimate Show 25 Show 50 Show 75 Show 100   By: Stefan Natchev RE: Should FasterCSV parse malformed CSVs ? [ reply ]   2007-11-26 20:34 Of course! Thank you, this is a lot more elegant than the patches to #parse_headers that I was attempting. By: James Gray RE: Should FasterCSV parse malformed CSVs ? [ reply ]   2007-11-26 20:13 My opinion is that this issue is better addresses on an application specific basis using a custom converter: #!/usr/bin/env ruby -wKU require "rubygems" require "faster_csv" EXAMPLE = <<END_CSV one,two, 1,2,3 END_CSV p FCSV.parse( EXAMPLE, :headers => true, :header_converters => lambda { |h| h ? h.to_sym : :unknown } ) __END__ I'm willing to hear other opinions though. James Edward Gray II By: Stefan Natchev Should FasterCSV parse malformed CSVs ? [ reply ]   2007-11-26 19:24 I have a case where users submit csvs that sometimes have trailing commas in the header row of a csv file. This causes FasterCSV to break when trying to convert the header because of a nil element. So my question is: should FasterCSV attempt to parse these (slightly) malformed csv documents? If not, should there be any kind of ParseExceptions being raised?