Hello,

On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:00 PM, rohit <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:51:53 AM UTC-5, Jeremy Evans wrote:
>>
>> On Thursday, May 17, 2012 7:17:16 AM UTC-7, Kartik Rustagi wrote:
>>>
>>> While to_csv function is great if my data is not having commas but the
>>> ability to mention the separator explicitly will be great. Is there a way
>>> to output a Dataset in a tab separated csv?
>>> Right now I have no other means to do this other than to iterate through
>>> each entry generating a string using tab as separator and this is extremely
>>> slow.
>>>
>>> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> Dataset#to_csv is really for backwards compatibility only, as it doesn't
>> even use a real csv library.   I don't see how iterating through the
>> entries yourself could be slower, as that is what Dataset#to_csv does.
>> Look at the source code of the method (https://github.com/**
>> jeremyevans/sequel/blob/**master/lib/sequel/dataset/**actions.rb#L553<https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel/blob/master/lib/sequel/dataset/actions.rb#L553>
>> ).
>>
>> I'll consider adding support for a different separator if I see some
>> community support behind this proposal.  So if other users here want this
>> feature, please speak up.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeremy
>>
>
> Or use FasterCSV which will quote any fields that include the separator.
> https://gist.github.com/2727033
>

FasterCSV was included into 1.9 as the standard csv library (
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5011395/what-is-ruby-1-9-standard-csv-library
).

-Bill

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