Thanks, Tux, for Text:CSV. It keeps coming in handy both directly and indirectly.

I have a question about escaped quotes in incoming files. I would have expected the output for the three data lines below to be identical, but the second line misses the escaped single quote. Is an escaped single quote some kind of faux pax or even a mistake within the data or would it be one in something which Text::CSV draws on? 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Text::CSV qw(csv);

use strict;
use warnings;

my $csv = Text::CSV->new ({ binary => 1, auto_diag => 1 });
my $o = \*STDOUT;

# Read/parse CSV
while (my $row = $csv->getline (\*DATA)) {
    my @selected = ( splice(@{$row}, 0, 2), splice(@{$row}, -6, 2) );
    $csv->say($o, \@selected);
}

exit(0);

__DATA__ 
8, 9, NULL, 'Filler', '555-999', '77:88', 0, 0, 0, 0
8, 9, NULL, 'Filler', '555-999', '77:88', 'A \' B , C', 0, 0, 0
8, 9, NULL, 'Filler', '555-999', '77:88', 0, 0, 0, 0

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This is based on something found in the wild.

In reply to Text::CSV and escaped quotes by mldvx4

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