in reply to Export MySQL table to CSV file?

In the interest of this obscure little languange called Perl (anyone here ever heard of it? ;)), here is a quick and dirty way via DBD::AnyData: 
use strict;
use DBI;

my $any_dbh   = DBI->connect('dbi:AnyData(RaiseError=>1):');
my $mysql_dbh = DBI->connect(
   qw(DBI:mysql:database:host user pass),
   {RaiseError=>1}
);

print $any_dbh->func( 
   'DBI', $mysql_dbh,
   'CSV', undef,
   {table_name=>'table'},
   'ad_convert',
);

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