This should work for a variable number of fields provided that:
- Quoted fields don't contain quotes.
- The last field in each record is either quoted, or does not contain spaces.
#! perl -slw
use strict;
my $data = do{ local $/; <DATA> };
my $noOfFieldsMinus1 = 5;
my @records = $data =~ m[
(
(?:
(?:
"[^"]+" ##"
|
[^,]+
) ,
){$noOfFieldsMinus1}
(?:
"[^"]+" ##"
|
\S+
)
)
\s+
]gx;
print for @records;
__DATA__
"Business Date","Location Name","Revenue Center Name","Tender Count","
+Tender Name","Tender Total" 2007-05-14 00:00:00.0,"Aville","x",300,"b
+",6899 2007-05-14 00:00:00.0,"Aville","x",6,"c",198.50 2007-05-14 00:
+00:00.0,"Aville","b",290,"Cash",12336.10 2007-05-14 00:00:00.0,"Bvill
+e","c",14,"d",958.40
Produces:
C:\test>615576
"Business Date","Location Name","Revenue Center Name","Tender Count","
+Tender Name","Tender Total"
2007-05-14 00:00:00.0,"Aville","x",300,"b",6899
2007-05-14 00:00:00.0,"Aville","x",6,"c",198.50
2007-05-14 00:00:00.0,"Aville","b",290,"Cash",12336.10
2007-05-14 00:00:00.0,"Bville","c",14,"d",958.40
Subsequent treatment of the csvs by any of the usual mechanisms.
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