> Where do the column names come from?

Good question! My thought was that if the user specifies a comma-separated columns attribute in the new() flags, those will be the column names and the first row of the file will be treated as data but that if none is supplied, the first row of data will be treated as the column names.

> The old interface really is strange

Yep, though very usable once you get used to it. (I inherited the interface from the module's original author). The odd thing is that in the six years the module has been on CPAN, no one has mentioned this. Bart and Diotalevi griped loudly in the CB, so I listened. Griping++. (polite griping)++++. (sending messages to CPAN authors that they have strange interfaces with examples of what's strange and what might be better)++++++.

In reply to Re^2: Text::CSV_XS - proposed new interface by jZed
in thread Text::CSV_XS - proposed new interface by jZed

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