translate pipe-delimited files to CSV

translate.rb

require 'csv'

path = ARGV[0]
fail "path required" if path.nil?

csv = CSV.open "#{path}.csv", "w"
begin
  File.open(path).each do |line|
    line = line.strip.force_encoding('iso-8859-1').encode 'UTF-8'
    csv << line.split('|', -1)
  end
ensure
  csv.close
end