On Sep 19, 2007, at 2:27 AM, Jesù¸ Gabriel y GaláÏ wrote:

> On 9/19/07, Matthias WçÄhter <matthias / waechter.wiz.at> wrote:
>> James Edward Gray II schrieb:
>>> On Sep 18, 2007, at 4:00 AM, Matthias WçÄhter wrote:
>>>> Anyway -- i'd like to see a 100000 lookups comparison :) *hehe*
>>> Great.  Run it for us and let us know how we do.  ;)
>>
>> [**]: O Jesus :), I can't make your FasterCSV version (a) run, and in
>> the later version you sent your direct parsing breaks when it  
>> comes to
>> detecting the commented lines in the first part of the file. I  
>> couldn't
>> manage to make it run, sorry.
>
> Hi,
>
> Yes, I only tested with my version of the file, from which I manually
> removed the comments. I don't think I'll have time to fix that, at
> least this week.  Anyway, I find strange the FasterCSV version doesn't
> work, because it delegates the parsing of the file to that gem, and
> the rest is pretty simple.

Comments are not a part of the CSV specification, so FasterCSV  
doesn't address them.  I would like to add ignore patterns at some  
point though.

James Edward Gray II