I want to use Text::CSV but I'm not very good at Perl yet and I'm getting confused on how to implement it. I've modified the following code but I'm not sure how to assign the fields in the CSV to my variables that are used in the SQL code. This is also my first time using files.

Here is what I came up with so far:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use DBI;
use Text::CSV;

my $sth;

my $input="main_table.csv";

my $csv=Text::CSV->new();     

open(INFILE,$input) || die "Can't open file $input";

##Start database connections###############
my $database = "database";
my $db_server = "localhost";
my $user = "user";
my $password = "password";

my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:$database:$db_server", $user, $passw
+ord);

my $statement = "INSERT INTO table (state, city, location) VALUES (?,?
+,?)";

$sth = $dbh->prepare($statement) or die "Couldn't prepare the query: $
+sth->errstr";

while(<INFILE>)
{
# I'm not sure where to go from here, need to put CSV fields into vari
+ables in SQL code?

$sth->execute($state,$city,$location) or die "Couldn't execute query: 
+$dbh->errstr";
}


$sth->finish;
$dbh->disconnect;

close(INFILE);

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Thanks for all your help tachyon, your input is always very good.

In reply to Re^2: Inserting CSV Into DB w/o CSV Modules by awohld
in thread Inserting CSV Into DB w/o CSV Modules by awohld

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