Thanks for feedback, Mr Anon :)
Multiline, meaning embedded newlines, yes - and you are right that the post is old, but since I am closing down a project, browsing through some perl hacks I found this thread and thought it worth while to comment on just the same.
You might be right though that I was not installing the latest Text::CSV when making this script

As for the method at parsing and printing, well I had to do some field manipulation both during import (unsorted) and export (sorted) for which I thought my example could be of use to someone else, struggling at CSV file manipulations :)
Updated the examples accordingly, to better illustrate this