Dear Monks,

Which is the best CSV parser?
I tried using Text::CSV - which works good for any Standard CSV records.
Recently I got a problem where in a file - the records are sometimes encapsulated and sometimes not. Can we handle this in one Parser. Also intrestingly this worked for me while using Text-CSV v1.13; but failed when using Text-CSV v1.21.

The secnario what I have is something like below,
field1,field2,some desc with inch 10",field3
field1,field2,soem desc,field3
field1,field2,"some desc with sep, and other",field3

CSV object was set with encapsulation(") and this works well while using Text-CSV v1.13, but not with Text-CSV v1.21
Appreciate your views.

Many Thanks,

In reply to CSV Parser, with and without encapsulation by tosaiju

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