I will get with you later this evening. Whent Text::CSV was first written, it did not handle the CSV standard properly. I was not in a position to contribute to the development effort, and needed a solution in a hurry.

Practical upshot: I wrote my own CSV module which handles the standard and was written with built in test cases to help ensure it stays that way.

I would be happy to donate my code to your effort if it will help -- but I need to travel immediately and won't have to time to post until later tonight.

Under normal circumstances I would never recommend my code over a CPAN module, but this is an odd confluence of two events which should have been so rare as to never meet.

Life's like that sometimes.

Chat soon.

In reply to Re: Ignore newlines within quotes while reading a line in a text file by marinersk
in thread Ignore newlines within quotes while reading a line in a text file by jab43

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