in reply to Reading file into an array and working with it.

What I would do is use Text::CSV to do the actual parsing, then push each array returned as an array reference onto a master array of locations: 
use Text::CSV;

my @locations;
my $csv = Text::CSV->new();

open (FILE, "locations.csv") or die "Couldn't open location file: $!";
while (<FILE>) {
    $csv->parse($_);
    push(@locations, [$csv->fields]);
}
close FILE;

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RE: Re: Reading file into an array and working with it.
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jun 26, 2000 at 12:25 UTC

    Might be worth pointing out that on CPAN there is now a Text::CSV_XS which, as its name implies, does the parsing in C code. It is therefore much faster than the pure Perl implementation in Text::CSV.

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      Hmm, I wonder if DBD::CSV could use it as a backend... and whether it would speed DBD:CSV up, because it is pretty slow.
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