On 05.06.2008 02:14, Rodrigo Bermejo wrote:
> Jeff Miller wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm pulling some fields out of an Oracle database and creating a CSV.
>> However, some fields have \n and \r in them, which messes up my CSV. Is
>> there a special function or a certain way I should try to get rid of
>> them? I tried using chomp, chomp!, strip, and strip! but I can't seem to
>> get it formatted the right way. An example string would be:
>>
>> "\nhere is some text\r\n\r\nsome more text\n\r\n\reven more text"
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> - Jeff
>
> If you want to delete them use this:
>
> "\nhere is some text\r\n\r\nsome more text\n\r\n\reven more
> text".gsub(/\r|\n/,"")
This will glue together words that were only separated by special chars.
This might be better:
irb(main):001:0> s = "\nhere is some text\r\n\r\nsome more
text\n\r\n\reven more text"
=> "\nhere is some text\r\n\r\nsome more text\n\r\n\reven more text"
irb(main):002:0> s.gsub(/\s+/,' ')
=> " here is some text some more text even more text"
irb(main):003:0> s.gsub(/\s+/,' ').strip
=> "here is some text some more text even more text"
irb(main):004:0> s.gsub(/[\r\n]+/,' ')
=> " here is some text some more text even more text"
irb(main):005:0> s.gsub(/[\r\n]+/,' ').strip
=> "here is some text some more text even more text"
> You can use: require 'csv' , it allows you to create/modify CSV with \r
> & \n without messing up the data.
That's probably even better.
Jeff, note also that there are some nice formatting capabilities in
SQL*Plus so you might as well create your output from there.
See
http://tahiti.oracle.com/ for docs.
Kind regards
robert
Similar Threads
