Reading a long dash in a csv for folder file directory?

[misscrf]

I have the following code which reads each line of a csv and cleans up each row. The rows are all path\ file name directories. I am having an issue where the script cannot find a path\file because the file name has a - in it. The - (dash) is read by ruby as \x96 . Does anyone know how to get it to not do that, and to read the - as a dash?

This is what I have, but it is not working:

CSV.foreach("#{batch_File_Dir_sdata}") do |ln|
        line_number += 1
        pathline = ln.to_s
        log_linemsg = "Source #{line_number}= #{pathline}"
        log_line = ["#{$cname}","#{log_linemsg}","","",]
        puts log_linemsg
        insert_logitems(connection, table_namelog, log_line)
        if pathline.include?("\\")
            cleanpath = pathline.gsub!("\\\\","\\")
            #cleanpath = cleanpath.gsub!("[","")
            #cleanpath = cleanpath.gsub!("]","")
            cleanpath.gsub!("\"","")
    #THIS IS THE LINE WHERE I AM TRYING TO FIX THE ISSUE        
            cleanpath.gsub!("\\x96","\-")
            cleanpath.slice!(0)
            cleanpath.chop!
            #puts "Clean path - has backslash\n#{cleanpath}"
        else
            cleanpath = pathline
            #puts "#{cleanpath}"
            #puts "Clean path - has NO backslash\n#{cleanpath}"
        end

A possible line is M:\path1\Path 2\Path3\File – name.doc To make this more difficult, I found the - is not a simple dash. Its an extended dash. That is why it's having the problem.

I need it to read the file path as is. I tried encode and it removes that dash in ruby. If I can't get ruby to read the file and path that exists, it won't find the file. I can't change the file name. It has to be what it is.

I've been looking it up for hours!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.



misscrf

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