package My::Employees; use base qw/Class::DBI/; __PACKAGE__->connection("DBI:CSV:f_dir=.;csv_sep_char=\t",); __PACKAGE__->db_Main->{'csv_tables'}->{'employees'} = { file => 'employees.txt'}; # i'm guessing a little here .. it's a lot easier if the file doesn't have an extension __PACKAGE__->table('employees'); __PACKAGE__->columns(Primary => qw/NAME/ ); # is it unique?? __PACKAGE__->columns(All => qw/NAME EMAIL OFFICE/); package main; my @all = My::Employees->retrieve_all; my $first = $all[0]; warn $first->EMAIL;