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Tool to correct invalid CSV files

Is there any command-line tool or ruby library to clean/correct invalid .csv files, something like tidy for html?

Example of error: unescaped non-successive double quotes.

Related to: Regular expression to find and replace unescaped Non-successive double quotes in CSV file.

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You have a look at this program http://www.flat-file.net/. Its build using .net however it does have a command line option.

BobF  2010-09-17 09:48:54
Hmm.. why is Google showing the site as containing malware?
Vlad Zloteanu  2010-09-17 10:15:49
Yes l did get that a couple of weeks back not now though, a false positive?
BobF  2010-10-02 17:37:07

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