Actually Text::CSV handles quoted fields pretty well, but the default quote character is ". See the quote_char section of the Text::CSV. Note that the sep_char is a single character though, so spaces are not removed, which would make 101, '1997' invalid CSV, because the quote_char should be the next thing after the sep_char. To allow spaces, set allow_whitespace to 1: 

use strict; use Text::CSV;
use Data::Dumper; 
my @lines=<DATA>;
my $csv = Text::CSV->new ({sep_char  => ',' , quote_char => "'", allow
+_whitespace => 1});

my @AoA;

for (@lines) { if    (/^\((.+?)\).?/){my $con=$1; 
  if ($csv->parse($con)) {
 
      my @fields = $csv->fields();   push @AoA,[@fields];
 
  } else {     warn "Line could not be parsed: $_\n";  }
}
}

print Dumper \@AoA;


__DATA__
(101, '1997-02-25', 'S1', 31.00, NULL, 0.00, 'this becomes two fields,
+ so no go', 5.11),
(102, '1998-03-26', 'S1', 31.00, NULL, 0.00, 'this will remain one fie
+ld', 6.11),

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$VAR1 = [
          [
            '101',
            '1997-02-25',
            'S1',
            '31.00',
            'NULL',
            '0.00',
            'this becomes two fields, so no go',
            '5.11'
          ],
          [
            '102',
            '1998-03-26',
            'S1',
            '31.00',
            'NULL',
            '0.00',
            'this will remain one field',
            '6.11'
          ]
        ];

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In reply to Re: Text::CSV - parsing by Eily
in thread Text::CSV - parsing by sphalaris

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