On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:10 PM, James Edward Gray II <james / graysoftinc.com> wrote: > ¨Âåæ óåìæ®ôáâìå¨ðáôè¬ ïðôéïîÈáóè®îå÷> ¨Âåáä¨ ðáôèºèåáäåòó ½¾ ôòõå> converters > :numeric, > header_converters => :symbol }.merge(options) ) > ¨Âîä > > So just call read() yourself and leave out the :converters => :numeric option. since we're just merging the options, couldn't we just add :converters=>nil ? like, csv_data = FCSV.table(input_file, :col_sep => ';', :skip_blanks => true, :converters=>nil) kind regards -botp