Nahi aka NAKAMURA, Hiroshi [mailto:nahi / keynauts.com] humbly replied: > 0% cat pena.csv > 1;SMTP:"local;part"@test.com;x400:blahblahblah;smtp:test / test.com > 2;SMTP:"local;part2"@test.com;x400:blahblahblah;smtp:test2 / test.com > > 0% ruby -rcsv -e 'CSV.parse("pena.csv", ?;) { |row| p > row.to_a }' ["1", "SMTP:\"local", "part\"@test.com", ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is it possible (in the future perhaps) to join this into one? Basically, what I'm asking is that escaped delimited characters (in this case "\;" in "local;part") should not be parse as delimiter. > Regards, > // NaHi kind regards -botp