# I'm sure I'll miss something, but I'll try to mention most of the major# differences I am aware of, to help others quickly get up to speed:## === CSV Parsing## * This parser is m17n aware. See CSV for full details.# * This library has a stricter parser and will throw MalformedCSVErrors on# problematic data.# * This library has a less liberal idea of a line ending than CSV. What you# set as the <tt>:row_sep</tt> is law. It can auto-detect your line endings# though.# * The old library returned empty lines as <tt>[nil]</tt>. This library calls# them <tt>[]</tt>.# * This library has a much faster parser.## === Interface## * CSV now uses Hash-style parameters to set options.# * CSV no longer has generate_row() or parse_row().# * The old CSV's Reader and Writer classes have been dropped.# * CSV::open() is now more like Ruby's open().# * CSV objects now support most standard IO methods.# * CSV now has a new() method used to wrap objects like String and IO for# reading and writing.# * CSV::generate() is different from the old method.# * CSV no longer supports partial reads. It works line-by-line.# * CSV no longer allows the instance methods to override the separators for# performance reasons. They must be set in the constructor.
# === To a File## CSV.open("path/to/file.csv", "wb") do |csv|# csv << ["row", "of", "CSV", "data"]# csv << ["another", "row"]# # ...# end
