Lots of replies about the special character. The original data is as follows: (Copied before file was imported in MS-Access) I will also add this isn't for production, just wanting to learn, so in this case I do not care about the character. My guess is the file sent to me came from Excel which is nortorious for adding unwanted characters. Or replacing a "-" with a character.

My text file before import, in MS-Access, and after export looks like

101,Thomasville
104,Tuscaloosa
105,Opelika
108,Tucker
110,Jacksonville
111,Lakeland
112,Miami
113,Villa Rica
114,Lafayette
115,New Orleans
118,Houston
120,Jamestown
124,Lynchburg Bakery
126,Tyler
127,Phoenix
128,Tolleson
129,Fontana
130,Lenexa
133,Modesto
134,Henderson
136,Knoxville
140,Bradenton
147,DKB Bakery
149,Baton Rouge
152,El Paso Bakery
161,Oxford
165,Lepage - Park St
166,Lepage - Cedar St
167,Lepage - Brattleboro
170,San Antonio
180,Bailey Street
181,Goldsboro
184,Norfolk
187,Batesville
188,Denton
190,Leeland
191,Newton
192,Savannah
193,Bardstown
321,Alpine
355,Montgomery
423,Lynchburg DC
430,Bridgeton DC
440,Reynolds DC
447,DKB DC
452,El Paso DC
456,Sacramento
457,Hope Mills
488,Memphis
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I will give the regex a try.

2018-01-05 Athanasius removed paragraph tags from data, and added code tags

Please use <code> and </code> tags for your data samples. Otherwise it is almost impossible to read.

I used the tags. I am not sure why they didn't work. I eve previewed the message and everything looked good

Try creating the file directly with both ADO and ODBC connections.

#!perl
use strict;
use DBI;
use Text::CSV;
use Devel::Peek;
 
my $dir = 'C:/GBowl/strawberry32/Scripts/'; 
my $db_file = $dir.'Hello.accdb';
my $outfile = $dir.'Plantfile.txt';

my $dsn;
$dsn = 'dbi:ADO:Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=';
#$dsn = 'dbi:ODBC:driver=Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb);dbq=
+';

my $dbh = DBI->connect("$dsn$db_file",
  { RaiseError => 1 }
) or die $DBI::errstr;

my $sql = ' 
  SELECT Company_Code,Name FROM Plants
  ORDER BY Company_Code';

my $rs = $dbh->selectall_arrayref($sql); 

open my $out,'>',$outfile 
       or die "Could not open $outfile : $!";
       
my $csv = Text::CSV->new ( { binary => 1 } )
           or die Text::CSV->error_diag();
$csv->eol ("\n");

for (@$rs){
  $csv->print($out,$_);
  my $line = join "\t",@$_;
  # check non-ascii
  if ($line =~ /[^\x09\x20-\x7E]/){
    Dump $line;
  }
}
close $out;
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poj