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- [Or Operator Precedence](ruby/or-operator-precedence.md)
- [Override The Initial Sequence Value](ruby/override-the-initial-sequence-value.md)
- [Parallel Bundle Install](ruby/parallel-bundle-install.md)
- [Parsing A CSV With Quotes In The Data](ruby/parsing-a-csv-with-quotes-in-the-data.md)
- [Pass A Block To Count](ruby/pass-a-block-to-count.md)
- [Passing Arbitrary Methods As Blocks](ruby/passing-arbitrary-methods-as-blocks.md)
- [Passing Arguments To A Rake Task](ruby/passing-arguments-to-a-rake-task.md)

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# Parsing A CSV With Quotes In The Data
If a CSV contains unescaped quote characters--like you might find in a CSV full
of measurement data--then Ruby's
[CSV](https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.6.1/libdoc/csv/rdoc/CSV.html) library will
be unable to parse it.
Here is what happens with a line of CSV about some lumber:
```ruby
> require 'csv'
> CSV.parse_line('oak,2",4"')
CSV::MalformedCSVError (Illegal quoting in line 1.)
```
However, we can enable some more lenient, liberal parsing of the data with the
`liberal_parsing` argument.
```ruby
> require 'csv'
> CSV.parse_line('oak,2",4"', liberal_parsing: true)
=> ["oak", "2\"", "4\""]
```
[source](https://blog.bigbinary.com/2016/11/22/ruby-2-4-introduces-liberal_parsing-option-for-parsing-bad-csv-data.html)