Check out http://ruby.yi.org/raa/en/all.html there is a module called 'csv'. You can also look at Ruby's Cookbook at http://www.rubycookbook.org/recipes.rb for help --- Albert Wagner <alwagner / tcac.net> wrote: > What is the simplist way to extract fields from > standard quoted, comma > delimited text files such as are commonly exported > from database programs? > Are there already classes/modules written? Or is > this normally just done > with the standard String methods? I don't yet know > enough about regular > expressions to make String.split do what I want. > Any help is appreciated. > Thanks ahead. > > Albert