Option headers¶ ↑

Specifies a boolean, Symbol, Array, or String to be used to define column headers.

Default value:

CSV::DEFAULT_OPTIONS.fetch(:headers) # => false

---

Without headers:

str = <<-EOT
Name,Count
foo,0
bar,1
bax,2
EOT
csv = CSV.new(str)
csv # => #<CSV io_type:StringIO encoding:UTF-8 lineno:0 col_sep:"," row_sep:"\n" quote_char:"\"">
csv.headers # => nil
csv.shift # => ["Name", "Count"]

---

If set to true or the Symbol :first_row, the first row of the data is treated as a row of headers:

str = <<-EOT
Name,Count
foo,0
bar,1
bax,2
EOT
csv = CSV.new(str, headers: true)
csv # => #<CSV io_type:StringIO encoding:UTF-8 lineno:2 col_sep:"," row_sep:"\n" quote_char:"\"" headers:["Name", "Count"]>
csv.headers # => ["Name", "Count"]
csv.shift # => #<CSV::Row "Name":"bar" "Count":"1">

---

If set to an Array, the Array elements are treated as headers:

str = <<-EOT
foo,0
bar,1
bax,2
EOT
csv = CSV.new(str, headers: ['Name', 'Count'])
csv
csv.headers # => ["Name", "Count"]
csv.shift # => #<CSV::Row "Name":"bar" "Count":"1">

---

If set to a String str, method CSV::parse_line(str, options) is called with the current options, and the returned Array is treated as headers:

str = <<-EOT
foo,0
bar,1
bax,2
EOT
csv = CSV.new(str, headers: 'Name,Count')
csv
csv.headers # => ["Name", "Count"]
csv.shift # => #<CSV::Row "Name":"bar" "Count":"1">

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