> 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.
Think about this part very carefully. There are continual problems with DBD::CSV, because the column descriptions that work well in spreadsheets don't map directly to valid SQL column names. "Profit & Loss" works in a spreadsheet, but has to become something like "PROFIT_AND_LOSS" in a database.

By the way, allowing embedded EOLs by default sounds good. It would also be good to allow extended characters by default. The first thing I tell everyone about Text::CSV_XS is that they need to turn "binary" on...

In reply to Re^3: Text::CSV_XS - proposed new interface by doom
in thread Text::CSV_XS - proposed new interface by jZed

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