[Omaha.pm] CSV and core modules.

[Chris St. Pierre]

Text::ParseWords might work for you.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008, Dan Linder wrote:

> Hello Omaha Perl Mongers:
>
> I'm working on a project that will pull in data from CSV files.  The
> old version of the program does all the CSV processing itself (i.e.
> split(/,/, $line).  While this works, there are a few text fields that
> could potentially contain commas themselves that would break this
> horribly.  While the though occurred to me to try and come up with a
> new RegExp for the find to ignore commas between quote (") characters,
> I thought I'd ask the wisdom of the list to see if there was a CSV
> perl module I'm missing?
>
> I'd really like one that's included as part of the Perl core
> distribution (5.8 and higher).  Did I miss this module?
>
> If that's not an option, I've played with the Text::CSV_XS module and
> it seems to work well.  Any other favorite CSV modules people use?
>
> Dan
>
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