Method: CSV#initialize

Defined in:

lib/csv.rb

#initialize(data, col_sep: ",", row_sep: :auto, quote_char: '"', field_size_limit: nil, converters: nil, unconverted_fields: nil, headers: false, return_headers: false, write_headers: nil, header_converters: nil, skip_blanks: false, force_quotes: false, skip_lines: nil, liberal_parsing: false, internal_encoding: nil, external_encoding: nil, encoding: nil, nil_value: nil, empty_value: "", quote_empty: true, write_converters: nil, write_nil_value: nil, write_empty_value: "", strip: false) ⇒ CSV

:call-seq:

CSV.new(string)
CSV.new(io)
CSV.new(string, **options)
CSV.new(io, **options)

Returns the new CSV object created using string or io and the specified options.

• Argument string should be a String object; it will be put into a new StringIO object positioned at the beginning. :include: ../doc/csv/arguments/io.rdoc
• Argument options: See:
  • Options for Parsing
  • Options for Generating For performance reasons, the options cannot be overridden in a CSV object, so those specified here will endure.

In addition to the CSV instance methods, several IO methods are delegated. See Delegated Methods.

---

Create a CSV object from a String object:

csv = CSV.new('foo,0')
csv # => #<CSV io_type:StringIO encoding:UTF-8 lineno:0 col_sep:"," row_sep:"\n" quote_char:"\"">

Create a CSV object from a File object:

File.write('t.csv', 'foo,0')
csv = CSV.new(File.open('t.csv'))
csv # => #<CSV io_type:File io_path:"t.csv" encoding:UTF-8 lineno:0 col_sep:"," row_sep:"\n" quote_char:"\"">

---

Raises an exception if the argument is nil:

# Raises ArgumentError (Cannot parse nil as CSV):
CSV.new(nil)

Raises:

• (ArgumentError)

# File 'lib/csv.rb', line 1743

def initialize(data,
               col_sep: ",",
               row_sep: :auto,
               quote_char: '"',
               field_size_limit: nil,
               converters: nil,
               unconverted_fields: nil,
               headers: false,
               return_headers: false,
               write_headers: nil,
               header_converters: nil,
               skip_blanks: false,
               force_quotes: false,
               skip_lines: nil,
               liberal_parsing: false,
               internal_encoding: nil,
               external_encoding: nil,
               encoding: nil,
               nil_value: nil,
               empty_value: "",
               quote_empty: true,
               write_converters: nil,
               write_nil_value: nil,
               write_empty_value: "",
               strip: false)
  raise ArgumentError.new("Cannot parse nil as CSV") if data.nil?

  if data.is_a?(String)
    @io = StringIO.new(data)
    @io.set_encoding(encoding || data.encoding)
  else
    @io = data
  end
  @encoding = determine_encoding(encoding, internal_encoding)

  @base_fields_converter_options = {
    nil_value: nil_value,
    empty_value: empty_value,
  }
  @write_fields_converter_options = {
    nil_value: write_nil_value,
    empty_value: write_empty_value,
  }
  @initial_converters = converters
  @initial_header_converters = header_converters
  @initial_write_converters = write_converters

  @parser_options = {
    column_separator: col_sep,
    row_separator: row_sep,
    quote_character: quote_char,
    field_size_limit: field_size_limit,
    unconverted_fields: unconverted_fields,
    headers: headers,
    return_headers: return_headers,
    skip_blanks: skip_blanks,
    skip_lines: skip_lines,
    liberal_parsing: liberal_parsing,
    encoding: @encoding,
    nil_value: nil_value,
    empty_value: empty_value,
    strip: strip,
  }
  @parser = nil
  @parser_enumerator = nil
  @eof_error = nil

  @writer_options = {
    encoding: @encoding,
    force_encoding: (not encoding.nil?),
    force_quotes: force_quotes,
    headers: headers,
    write_headers: write_headers,
    column_separator: col_sep,
    row_separator: row_sep,
    quote_character: quote_char,
    quote_empty: quote_empty,
  }

  @writer = nil
  writer if @writer_options[:write_headers]
end