Here it is using Text::CSV_XS. Set the key_colnum to the number of the column you want to be key. Here it's set to 0 (the first column). This reads a "tab-delimited" file, set sep_char to something else if there's another delimiter. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Text::CSV_XS;
use IO::File;

my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new({binary=>1,sep_char=>"\t"});
my $fh  = IO::File->new( 'hdi.csv') or die $!;
my $hash;
my $key_colnum = 0;
my $cols = $csv->getline($fh);
while(my $vals = $csv->getline($fh)){
  last unless @$vals;
  my %row;
  @row{@$cols} = @$vals;
  $hash->{ $row{ $cols->[$key_colnum] } } = \%row;
}
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper $hash;

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In reply to Re: Parsing CSV into a hash by jZed
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