Mr. Gray, Thank you for the quick reply. I'm a PHP guy with 3 weeks in Ruby on Rails (Department changed platform 3 months after they hired me) Could you please point me to a good 'FasterCSV' resource with some examples? Thank you very much. JohnM James Gray wrote: > On Aug 17, 2009, at 10:54 AM, John Mcleod wrote: > >> Hello All, > > Hello. > >> Is it practical to import data from a csv file, via FasteCSV to a >> temporary data structure, like a hash, for editing purposes? > > I don't see why it wouldn't be. FasterCSV::Row has a to_hash() > method. I use this regularly to pump CSV rows into ActiveRecord's > create!() method to add records to my database. > > James Edward Gray II -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.