Actually, if you want someone else to be able to modify it in your absence, you'll even more want to use the module. The module's interface is way better than trying to read the code that actually does the work.

Really.

I mean it.

In fact, if you want to really make your life easy, you may want to use DBD::CSV where you can just use a bit of SQL to insert into a new CSV table some sort of SELECT from the old CSV table. A lot of magic will happen under the covers, but it's magic that you don't need to write, maintain, comment, or play with. Same goes for your friend ;-) What you're left with is some really easy-to-tweak code that your friend should have much less problem playing with.

In reply to Re^3: Perl is returning... odd results... from regular expressions. Things matching when they shouldn't, and stuff like that. by Tanktalus
in thread Perl is returning... odd results... from regular expressions. Things matching when they shouldn't, and stuff like that. by Groxx

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