Option strip

Specifies the boolean value that determines whether whitespace is stripped from each input field.

Default value:

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

With default value false:

ary = CSV.parse_line(' a , b ')
ary # => [" a ", " b "]

With value true:

ary = CSV.parse_line(' a , b ', strip: true)
ary # => ["a", "b"]