Text::CSV is actually a pure text module. The only reason you can't install it in your local directory and use it is because it uses Autoloader to reduce its memory footprint.

Rather than write your own replacement, you only need change 3 lines in the source of Text::CSV and you can use it, which would save some work and some testing.

The three changes are:

• Comment out line 23.

  #  use AutoLoader qw(AUTOLOAD);

• Delete line 34.

  __END__

• Move line 32 to line 319.

  1;

With those changes the module takes a split second or two longer to load and uses a tad more memory, but works fine.

Hope that helps.