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