On Jun 6, 9:50 am, James Edward Gray II <j... / grayproductions.net> wrote: > On Jun 6, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Junkone wrote: > > > > > > > i am not sure what is wrong here > > tablearr is of type FASTERCSV::TABLE > > eachrow is of type FASTERCSV::ROW > > as per the fastercsv doc, the table.values_at returns a array. > > the array has method .include?<searchcriteria> > > > def checkduplicates(eachrow,tablearr,indx,criteria) > > eachrow.each{|name,valu| > > rowdata=tablearr.values_at(indx+criteria) > > if(rowdata.include?valu)<<<<<<<<<<<<< ERROR HERE. > > puts "match" > > end > > > } > > > c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fastercsv-1.2.0/lib/faster_csv.rb: > > 345:in `==': undefined method `row' for "03":String (NoMethodError) > > from scan.rb:7:in `include?' > > I'm happy to help debug this, but it would be much easier if I had > some code I could run. Could you try reducing the error to a simple > little script, using included dummy data, that shows the problem? > When I see that, I'm sure I can provide some suggestions. > > James Edward Gray II- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Hello Thanks for your response. attaching the script and data data No,S/W,Day,Month,Year,N1,N2,N3,N4,N5,N6,Bn,Sum 1,Sat,12 ,June,1982,03,11,12,14,41,43,13,124 2,Sat,19 ,June,1982,08,33,36,37,39,41,09,194 3,Sat,26 ,June,1982,06,01,23,24,27,39,34,120 4,Sat,03 ,July,1982,03,09,10,13,20,43,34,98 5,Sat,10 ,July,1982,05,14,21,31,34,47,45,152 6,Sat,17 ,July,1982,08,20,21,25,31,41,33,146 7,Sat,24 ,July,1982,18,25,28,33,36,42,07,182 script require "faster_csv" SEARCH_CRITERIA=1 def checkduplicates(eachrow,tablearr,indx,criteria) eachrow.each{|name,valu| rowdata=tablearr.values_at(indx+criteria) if(rowdata.include?valu) puts "match" end } end tablearr = FasterCSV.read("c:\\ruby\\testing\\data.txt", {:headers=>true,:skip_blanks=>true}) tablearr.by_col!() tablearr.delete("No") tablearr.delete("S/W") tablearr.delete("Day") tablearr.delete("Month") tablearr.delete("Year") #puts tablearr tablearr.by_row!() tablearr.each_with_index{|eachrow,indx| checkduplicates(eachrow,tablearr,indx,SEARCH_CRITERIA) # puts indx }