APM: chokes on dos formatted csv file

Keith Howanitz howanitz at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 09:39:46 PDT 2008


This sample runs great if the file is Unix formatted, but if I upload
a file from a windows system it dies with error:
Error getting csv data. (Bad file descriptor) at ./test-csv2 line 13,
<MYCSV> line 1.

Any suggestions?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Text::CSV_XS;
my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new ();

chomp (my $FN = $ARGV[0]);

open MYCSV, $FN
  or die "Error opening csv file. ($!)";

while (<MYCSV>) {
  chomp;
 $csv->parse($_)
    or die "Error getting csv data. ($!)";  #this is where it dies on
a dos formatted file
  my @list = $csv->fields;   #split fields into @list
  print $list[1] . "\n";
}
close MYCSV;


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