• Doc: http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_spreadsheeting/doc
• Gem: http://rubygems.org/gems/sixarm_ruby_spreadsheeting
• Repo: http://github.com/sixarm/sixarm_ruby_spreadsheeting

String helpers for importing, exporting, and parsing spreadsheet data.

This is useful for reading and writing files in CSV, TSV, Excel, etc.

For docs go to http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_spreadsheeting/doc

Want to help? We're happy to get pull requests.

To install this gem in your shell or terminal:

gem install sixarm_ruby_spreadsheeting

To add this gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'sixarm_ruby_spreadsheeting'

To require the gem in your code:

require 'sixarm_ruby_spreadsheeting'

Some spreadsheet programs use cells that can have different types of data, such as:

• a date like "2010/12/31"
• a boolean flag like "+" or "-"
• a freeform text note like "Hello"

This gem has methods for parsing and printing these individually and in combinations.

Require:

require "sixarm_ruby_spreadsheeting"

To import a spreadsheet cell's text that may be a date or a freeform note:

date, note = import_date_or_note("2010/12/31") 
=> [<Date: 2010-12-31>, nil]

date, note = import_date_or_note("Hello") 
=> [nil, "Hello"]

To export either a date or a note to spreadsheet cell text:

date = Date.today
note = nil
export_date_or_note(date, text)  #=> "2010/12/31"

date = nil
note = "Hello"
export_date_or_note(date, text)  #=> "Hello"