Re: Text::CSV

It's true that Text::CSV does not directly handle multiline fields, but I found it quite easy to get around
My task was to export/import a set of requirements between tools, for which purpose I (amongst others) needed to add a field and sort the input recursively by parent reference (using Sort::Naturally)

On reading, I created multilines as

    while ( my $line = $csv->getline($fh) ) {
        # Manipulation of unsorted fields during import
        my @multiline = join(';',@{$line});
        push @content, @multiline ;
    }
    if (not $csv->eof) {
        $csv->error_diag();
    }
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and on printing back, I entered data field by field as

    for my $line (@result) {
        my @fields = split(/;/,$line);
        # Manipulation of sorted fields during export
        print $fh "$_;" foreach @fields;
        print $fh "\n";
    }
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with csv object created as $csv = Text::CSV->new({ binary => 1, auto_diag => 1, sep_char => ';' });

I.e. I never bothered to try using the module for writing back data, nor other suggestions as from above :)

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Re^2: Text::CSV by Anonymous Monk on Aug 20, 2014 at 14:32 UTC
It's true that Text::CSV does not directly handle multiline fields What is your definition of "multiline fields"? Because Text::CSV does handle fields with embedded newlines. In your output code, you could have used Text::CSV's `print` method. (By the way, why split `$line` only to join it again immediately afterwards?) Note that the last post in this thread was ~10 years ago, a lot has changed since then.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Text::CSV by wilmer_t (Novice) on Aug 25, 2014 at 20:23 UTC
Thanks for feedback, Mr Anon :) Multiline, meaning embedded newlines, yes - and you are right that the post is old, but since I am closing down a project, browsing through some perl hacks I found this thread and thought it worth while to comment on just the same. You might be right though that I was not installing the latest Text::CSV when making this script As for the method at parsing and printing, well I had to do some field manipulation both during import (unsorted) and export (sorted) for which I thought my example could be of use to someone else, struggling at CSV file manipulations :) Updated the examples accordingly, to better illustrate this	[reply]