kevind0718

Text::CSV_PP manual is your friend. It mentions a method that can be helpful :

$csv->error_diag()
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When I added a call and a print like this

  $status = $csv->parse($line); 

  printf "status=%d\n", $status;
  unless ($status) {
    printf "error=%d  %s\n", ( $csv->error_diag());
  }
  
  @col = $csv->fields();
  print Dumper \@col;
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I obtained this printout for your first test line :

"fred1234","bedrock quary","S","t","88579Y101","4851","2595708","US885
+79Y1010","MMM","3M CO","USD","USD","SB7",1,19610718,19610718,225212,"
+MMM UN","MMM.N","",1,"C",710.964086349999,710.964086349999,710.964086
+35,,,2.45938,,,,"R" ~~
status=0
error=2027  EIQ - Quoted field not terminated
$VAR1 = [
          undef
        ];
--new line--
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You will notice that there is a space after the last doublequote character, and this is what the parser does not like.

Below, I added a kludge that makes the problem go away.

#! perl -w

use strict;
use Text::CSV_PP;
use Data::Dumper;

$csv = Text::CSV_PP->new();           # create a new CSV parser object

while (defined($line = <> ))  {

  chomp $line;
  $line =~ s/\" $/\"/;   ### kludge to remove space after the last dou
+blequote, if any

  print $line  . "~~\n";
   
  $status = $csv->parse($line); 
  printf "status=%d\n", $status;
  unless ($status) {
    printf "error=%d  %s\n", ( $csv->error_diag ());
  }
  
  @col = $csv->fields();
  print Dumper \@col;

print "--new line--\n";
}  #while
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HTH

Rudif

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