Convert string array to array object

Question

I want to import my CSV file to my database, my CSV file has following string and I need to parse it to a Ruby array object, how to do that?

"[\"Mt Roskill\", \"Sylvia Park\"]"

Answer 1

That example string looks like JSON. Use JSON.parse to return a Ruby array:

require 'json'

JSON.parse("[\"Mt Roskill\", \"Sylvia Park\"]")
#=> ["Mt Roskill", "Sylvia Park"]