Hello all, I just started learning Perl and I get stuck on a basic file processing :

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Use Text::CSV or Text::xSV

Examples at

• join - join two files according to a common key
• part - split up files according to column value
• Merge two files with similar column entries
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• I need help joining tab-delimited files/tables!
• split then join based on common value in field
• Smart way to read a file vertically?
• reformatting tab delimited file
• edit a CSV and "in-place" replacement
• Re: Reversing a mysql table, transpose-tsv -- invert a tab-delimited table

• Text::CSV

  examples/csv2xls	Script to onvert CSV files to M$Excel
  examples/csv-check	Script to check a CSV file/stream
  examples/csvdiff	Script to shoff diff between sorted CSV files
  examples/parser-xs.pl	Parse CSV stream, be forgiving on bad lines

 [CSV hash ] CSV hash

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