Indeed you need to use Text::CSV, but you also need to set CSV_XS to do binary interpretation. That will take care of embeded CR/LF's and other such things. Beware that some versions of Access will not export more than 65,000 rows as CSV, and there is NO warning. It just silently discards the remaining rows! 
use Text::CSV_XS;
my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new(binary=>1);
...

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Building SQL through interpolation is fine as long as you escape the values first. Most, if not all, DBD drivers provide a quote function that will escape strings for you. Binding placeholders actually does the quoting for you so most people find that easier. I prefer to escape stuff myself. 
$dbh->quote($some_string);
my $sql = "update some_table where some_attr = '$some_string'";

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Take your pick.

Finally a cheap plug: use PostgreSQL

In reply to Re: Re: Perl with MS Access Weirdness by Cabrion
in thread Perl with MS Access Weirdness by mlong

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