[columbus.pm] Re: Help parsing large files.

[Tim Koruna]

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 01:00:52AM +0000, Pat Collins wrote:
> I'm trying to parse some large files (>75M) to convert the format for 
> import into a mysql database.
> 
> Here is the routine I wrote (I'm still fairly new at perl):
> 
> sub convert_to_csv() {
> 

<SNIP>

Have you considered using the Text::ParseWords module?  It may save
you some of the heavy lifting (and some inadvertent parsing errors)
when unpacking/repacking data in .csv format.  Try page 510 in the
camel book for a description.

TK.
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