$ echo 1,a | perl -MDP -MText::CSV_XS -wle'DPeek(Text::CSV_XS->new->getline(*ARGV))' \AV() $ echo 1,a | perl -MDP -MText::CSV_XS -we'DDumper(Text::CSV_XS->new->getline(*ARGV))' $VAR1 = [ '1', 'a' ];