$csv = Text::CSV_XS->new ();

           is equivalent to

            $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new ({
                quote_char     => '"',
                escape_char    => '"',
                sep_char       => ';,',
                eol            => '',
                always_quote   => 0,
                binary         => 0,
                keep_meta_info => 0,
                });

           For all of the above mentioned flags, there is an accessor method
           available where you can inquire for the current value, or change
           the value

            my $quote = $csv->quote_char;
            $csv'>binary (1);    
       :
       :
       meta_info
            @flags = $csv->meta_info ();

           This object function returns the flags of the input to "combine ()"
           or the flags of the resultant decomposed fields of "parse ()",
           whichever was called more recently.

           For each field, a meta_info field will hold flags that tell
           something about the field returned by the "fields ()" method or
           passed to the "combine ()" method. The flags are bitwise 'or'd like:

           0x0001
               The field was quoted.

           0x0002
               The field was binary.

           See the "is_*** ()" methods below.

       is_quoted
             my $quoted = $csv->is_quoted ($column_idx);

           Where $column_idx is the (zero-based) index of the column in the
           last result of "parse ()".

           This returns a true value if the data in the indicated column was
           enclused in "quote_char" quotes. This might be important for data
           where ",20070108," is to be treated as a numeric value, and where
           ","20070108"," is explicitely marked as character string data.

       is_binary
             my $binary = $csv->is_binary ($column_idx);

           Where $column_idx is the (zero-based) index of the column in the
           last result of "parse ()".

           This returns a true value if the data in the indicated column
           contained any byte in the range [\x00-\x08,\x10-\x1F,\x7F-\xFF]


       An example for parsing CSV lines:

         use Text::CSV_XS;

         my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new ({ keep_meta_info => 1, binary => 1 });

         my $sample_input_string =
             qq{"I said, ""Hi!""",Yes,"",2.34,,"1.09","\x{20ac}",};
         if ($csv->parse ($sample_input_string)) {
             my @field = $csv->fields;
             foreach my $col (0 .. $#field) {
                 my $quo = $csv->is_quoted ($col) ? $csv->{quote_char} : "";
                 printf "%2d: %s%s%s\n", $col, $quo, $field[$col], $quo;
                 }
             }
         else {
             my $err = $csv->error_input;
             print "parse () failed on argument: ", $err, "\n";
             }