The_DJ, thank you for this. I've learned a lot by slowly poring through this to learn how this worked, and realized that by making unique keys of SEVERAL fields together, that simplifies things greatly! I've run into a problem that I'm not sure how to solve. The entire file gets slurped in within a single line, but I discovered on my full data set that someone actually created filenames with commas in it, causing it to not output correctly.

Reading through the Text::CSV documentation (which apparently uses CSV_XS), I find something about a quote_char, but it defaults to a quote anyway.
Adding the reference to it specifically

my $aoa = csv( in => $filename, quote_char => "\""  );
Also proves ineffective, or rather no change. (I think that's the default anyway.)

The input data shows it as a quoted field, but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Input data looks like this:
10.15.106.71,"/ifs/PH01/PH01SUB/ENTNASIS02/PH02/SMB/Share/Share6/Emplo
+yee-Share/Contracts/Privacy and Disclosure/Disclosure Unit/Active Con
+tracts/County/Sample County/E00526, E00595 Sample  County DA/2017-202
+0 M4385566/Emails & Correspondence/Welcome Letter.doc",FMRWX,Creator 
+Owner,\ifs\PH01\PH01SUB\ENTNASIS02\PH02\SMB\Share\Share6\Employee-Sha
+re\Contracts,This folder only,Abstract\Creator Owner,"US PII (1/1),Do
+cument Passwords - 2.0 (1/1),US Social Security Number (1/1),GLBA (Gr
+amm-Leach Bliley Act) (1/1)","Credentials (1),Financial (1),PII (2)",
+4

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After focusing a bit on the 1st part of the data (before the magic field), I noticed the quoted commas issue was there in all other lines containing more than one sensitive data type the entire time. (after the magic field)

So, somehow I need to figure out how to slurp in (as one field) anything with quotes and having commas within, but still comma separated.

Am I missing something too obvious in the docs? Text::CSV#quote_char

In reply to Re^2: Building a dynamic array or some other method? by CAdood
in thread Building a dynamic array or some other method? by CAdood

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