Hello, I believe the default is CRLF, so for Mac you may need this line: $dbh->{'csv_eol'} = "\015"; # lines end with ctrl-m Some other notes.. Vertical tabs, binary/two-byte code, and Excel may also mess up your data. I rebuilt SQL-HTML to use the DBD::CSV SQL wrapper for a couple projects of mine, and had to deal with unsupported functions, so careful of other SQL commands you might take for granted like list tables. Also you might also include "use Text::CSV_XS" (changing the default field separator to the pipe symbol) for direct manipulation routines but I found the quote methods to be spooky especially with Japanese data. Always safer to roll your own. Hope this helps, Matt Rosin