====== Option +skip_blanks+ Specifies a boolean that determines whether blank lines in the input will be ignored; a line that contains a column separator is not considered to be blank. Default value: CSV::DEFAULT_OPTIONS.fetch(:skip_blanks) # => false See also option {skiplines}[#class-CSV-label-Option+skip_lines]. For examples in this section: str = <<-EOT foo,0 bar,1 baz,2 , EOT Using the default, +false+: ary = CSV.parse(str) ary # => [["foo", "0"], [], ["bar", "1"], ["baz", "2"], [], [nil, nil]] Using +true+: ary = CSV.parse(str, skip_blanks: true) ary # => [["foo", "0"], ["bar", "1"], ["baz", "2"], [nil, nil]] Using a truthy value: ary = CSV.parse(str, skip_blanks: :foo) ary # => [["foo", "0"], ["bar", "1"], ["baz", "2"], [nil, nil]]