Hey CountZero!

Thanks! I already did think of that solution but i must also mention it was my last choice! You can see why in my reply to 'marinersk'. But someone gave me a nice idea which could work(i have not tested this yet but could definitely be a light in the dark tunnel of CSV/Excel features!)

#Get system language id to know German/US format of excels
Win32::API->Import('kernel32.dll', 'long GetSystemDefaultLangID()') or
+ die "Can't import GetSystemDefaultLangID: $^E\n";
$langid = GetSystemDefaultLangID() & 0xFFFF or die "ERROR: LANGID Retu
+rned <undef>\n"; # Mask out the garbage in high-order bytes
#my $langid = GetSystemDefaultLangID();
warn "my language id is :" .$langid;

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This could be used at the start of a Perl script to identify if the list separator that comes along with a *.csv is going to be a semi-colon or comma! I do hope this comes in handy to anyone who faces this problem in the future!

Thank you fellow monks for your delightful replies!! I shall post one final comment if this idea works out. If not (i do hope it would), guess the discussion is still open for ideas!

In reply to Re^2: Semicolon delimited to Comma delimited by swatzz
in thread Semicolon delimited to Comma delimited by swatzz

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