Re^2: Text::CSV

Good post, just a note: this will not work right if the quoted strings happen to be broken onto two lines. In that case, Text::CSV's getline is better (see the section "Embedded newlines" in the doc):

use warnings;
use strict;
use Text::CSV;
use Data::Dump;

my $csv = Text::CSV->new ({ binary=>1, auto_diag=>2,
    quote_char=>"'", allow_whitespace=>1 });
while ( my $row = $csv->getline( \*DATA ) ) {
    dd $row;
}
$csv->eof;

__DATA__
(101, '1997-02-25', 'S1', 31.00, NULL, 0.00, 'this becomes two fields,
so no go', 5.11),
(102, '1998-03-26', 'S1', 31.00, NULL, 0.00, 'this
will remain one field', 6.11),
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Output:

[
  "(101",
  "1997-02-25",
  "S1",
  "31.00",
  "NULL",
  "0.00",
  "this becomes two fields,\nso no go",
  "5.11)",
  "",
]
[
  "(102",
  "1998-03-26",
  "S1",
  "31.00",
  "NULL",
  "0.00",
  "this\nwill remain one field",
  "6.11)",
  "",
]
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Re^3: Text::CSV - parsing by Eily (Monsignor) on Mar 14, 2017 at 18:24 UTC
Well, this doesn't deal with the parentheses properly, so this would make your ++solution a better one then. You don't have to worry about embedded newlines, enclosing parentheses, the non default quote character or extra white space. And parsing DB data as SQL makes sense :)	[reply]