Iterating over a nil value from CSV element

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when I'm parsing a csv file, and don't want to use those elements that
return a nil value, what is the easiest way to do so? I've tried:

    if record == nil
      next
    else

where record is the current element from the file.

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2

If tend to like boolean expressions rather than comparison with
'nil' (or false):

   next if record.nil?

or

   next unless record

The latter will skip when next is either 'nil' or 'false'.

If you have multiple fields and want to skip if they all are nil/
false:

   next unless first or second or third

If you want to skip if any of them are nil/false:

   next unless first and second and third

Lars

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On Mar 6, 6:24 pm, Max Russell <thedoss...@gmail.com> wrote:

when I'm parsing a csv file, and don't want to use those elements that
return a nil value, what is the easiest way to do so? I've tried:

    if record == nil
      next
    else

3

Depending on what you are doing, you can parse first, use #compact after.

Todd

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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Max Russell <thedossone@gmail.com> wrote:

when I'm parsing a csv file, and don't want to use those elements that
return a nil value, what is the easiest way to do so? I've tried:

    if record == nil
      next
    else

where record is the current element from the file.