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If the whole field were in parenthesis, you're right, that would work.

But the value is this:
, these (not enough, nope, never),
...not this...
, (these not enough, nope, never),

Text::CSV_XS chokes if you replace the parens with your tr/// suggestion. CSV requires that either the whole field or none of the field be quoted - you can't quote part of a field.

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Re4: Splitting a comma-delimited string where a substring could countain commas
by belg4mit (Prior) on May 05, 2002 at 01:18 UTC
    Good call. A little massaging would overcome that, but then that puts us in the realm of s/// and others have already posted better solutions using that.

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    perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"

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