Hey guys - I recently was working on consuming a query from my database and outputting this information to a CSV file to be emailed to myself. I can't seem to understand why the excel file prints only to 1 row when I do not use eol=>$/ inside the setup parameters for Text::CSV. I imagine this has to do with a carriage return or new line symbol but in my research I have pulled up no information on what $/ means.. Can someone shed some light on this? The following is my working code with the EOL attached, I just don't understand how the EOL is interpretted. 
my $csv = Text::CSV->new ({ binary => 1, auto_diag => 1, eol => $/ });
open my $fh, ">:encoding(utf8)", $filename or die "$filename: $!";

$sth = $dbh->prepare("$query") or error($q, "Problem with database cal
+l");
        if($sth->execute) {
                while(@dat = $sth->fetchrow) { $csv->print($fh, \@dat)
+; }

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THANKS!

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