Hi,

I am currently munching CSV files and have re-occurring tasks like

- add a line consisting of sums of column-values

- calculate things like "sum all values in column 2 execpt for the last one and then find the difference to the last one"

- find the average of the values in column 4

etc etc

and I wonder: is there a good module to do such kinds of things?

At the moment I use DBD::CVS and use SQL to calculate things but it does seem to be a bit silly...

Bascially I am looking for a module that would allow me to treat a CSV a bit like a spreadsheet, but from the command-line as the output goes straight into gnuplot.

Probably all of the above sounds like the ranting of a mad man but maybe someone understands what my problem is and can give me a hint.

Many thanks!

In reply to Handling CSV files by morgon

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