Esteemed Brethren,
We've come across a strange problem with DBD::CSV when inserting / updating empty fields, demonstrated by this test case. 
use DBI;use strict;use warnings;
my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:CSV:f_dir=./;");
$dbh->do("create table mytable (field1 text,field2 text)");
$dbh->do("insert into mytable values ('','there')");
print "field1=",$dbh->selectrow_array("select field1 from mytable");

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which prints field1='?0?there' only on our Redhat 7.3.2 (Perl 5.8,DBD::CSV 0.2002) box - not on the Windows machines (also Perl 5.8, DBD::CSV 2.002) or a Debian Perl 5.6 (DBD::CSV 1.030) machine.

I therefore assumed it was something to do with Text::CSV_XS, but that seems to be fine as far as I can make out - this is OK... 

use Text::CSV_XS;
use IO::Wrap;
my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new(); 
my $fh = wraphandle(STDOUT);
$csv->print($fh, ['','test']);

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...and it looks like could be something to do with placeholders - values('','something','','something'...) gives '?0?something','?1?something' etc.

Stangely also, even if csv_quote_char is set to \", the values are always single-quoted.

Has anybody else come across this? I'm not seriously worried, as we're only playing with CSV for initial prototyping fun, but it seemed a curious bug. I don't want to go mailing authors unless it's reproducible elsewhere, and not just us being dumb :)

Cheers,Ben.

In reply to DBD::CSV empty fields problem on RedHat / Perl 5.8. by benn

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