As suggested removing the verbose error (and adding print @row) output making the program this:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
no warnings;
use DBD::CSV;
my $file = shift;
my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:CSV:f_dir=.')
  or die "Cannot connect $!";
$dbh->{'csv_tables'}{'current_table'}
  = { file => $file, quote_char => '~', eol=> "\r\n" };
my $sth = $dbh->prepare(q{SELECT * FROM current_table});
$sth->execute();
while ( defined ( my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array ) ) {
  print @row;
}

print $sth->errstr();
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Will yield and endless loop of:

DBD::CSV::st fetchrow_array failed: Attempt to fetch row from a Non-SE
+LECT statement [for Statement "SELECT * FROM current_table"] at ./col
+_proc.pl line 13.
DBD::CSV::st fetchrow_array failed: Attempt to fetch row from a Non-SE
+LECT statement [for Statement "SELECT * FROM current_table"] at ./col
+_proc.pl line 13.
DBD::CSV::st fetchrow_array failed: Attempt to fetch row from a Non-SE
+LECT statement [for Statement "SELECT * FROM current_table"] at ./col
+_proc.pl line 13.
DBD::CSV::st fetchrow_array failed: Attempt to fetch row from a Non-SE
+LECT statement [for Statement "SELECT * FROM current_table"] at ./col
+_proc.pl line 13.
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While removing the defined () makes the program silently exit printing nothing.
As a last note, changing the table's quote_char to csv_quote_char style in dbh declaration results in no change in output. UPDATE:

Don't know where you can take this, but removing quote_char and csv_quote_char all together, and the defined() bit, makes the program output this:

evan@dealermade:/var/chrome/NVDv2_US_EN$ ./col_proc.pl problem.txt
282198     2007700803    16139     2007        1         ~ZMB67~     ~
+ZMB67~          ~2dr Conv~  ~Y~              21319.80evan@dealermade:
+/var/chrome/NVDv2_US_EN$ vim problem.txt
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Which is correct less the quote_char, and csv_quote_char, is this problem specific to '~' as a quote char?

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