Re^8: Perl custom sort for Portuguese Lanaguage

Thanks! I see you're filtering lines beginning with # when they occur at the beginning of the file; the way I understood the OP's sample data is that the comments can occur anywhere. And my worry was that, even though in the OP's data this is probably not the case, filter-based solutions will remove lines that may actually not be comments, and I wasn't sure if there was a easy solution for this?

use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Peek;
use Text::CSV_XS qw/csv/;

DDumper csv( in=>*DATA, escape_char=>"\\",
    filter => sub { $_[1][0] !~ m/^\s*#/ });

__DATA__
# This is a comment
a,b,c

# Also a comment
x,y,z
"#not",a,comment
\#also,not,"a comment"
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Output:

[
    [   'a',
        'b',
        'c'
        ],
    [   ''
        ],
    [   'x',
        'y',
        'z'
        ],
    [   ''
        ]
    ]
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Re^9: Perl custom sort for Portuguese Lanaguage by Tux (Canon) on Jul 09, 2020 at 14:14 UTC
So more or like like this:? `DDumper csv ( in => DATA, sep => "\|", filter => sub { $_[1][0] =~ m/^\s#/ && @{$_[1]} == 1 ? 0 : 1; }, );` [download] Which would not even need a ternary if slightly rewritten Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn	[reply] [d/l]
Re^10: Perl custom sort for Portuguese Lanaguage (updated x2) by haukex (Archbishop) on Jul 09, 2020 at 14:20 UTC
So more or like like this:? Closer, but then this no longer filters comments that contain the `sep` character (e.g. add "`# This is a comment, too`" to my example above)... Update: I realize this is less likely when `sep=>'\|'`, but my question is basically whether there's a "generic" way to filter lines. For example, I could load the file into memory and do `s/^\s#.(?:\n\|\z)//mg`, but that would break any CSV data that contains embedded newlines that happen to match this pattern. In other words, with Text::CSV_XS, `filter` is only applied after parsing fields like `"#foo"` or `\#foo` to `#foo`, and I'm wondering if there's a hook into the parser before that takes place? Update 2: In the CB, you suggested `in => \do { local $/; <DATA> =~ s/^\s#.(?:\n\|\z)//mgr }`, which gets closer as well, though it breaks this test case. Just for completeness, here are all the test cases so far combined into one data set: `# This is a comment not,a,comment # This is a comment, too not,a,comment "#not",a,comment \#also,not,"a comment" foo,"bar # Not a comment, either! quz",baz` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]