Hi, I've a set of CSV files that contain a scattering of UTF8 characters such as Ø, á, etc. I'm using Tie::Handle::CSV to read the data in for processing. I'm using Perl 5.8.8 and running (this) on Windows. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Encode;
use Tie::Handle::CSV;

my $dir = '.';
if (@ARGV > 0) {
  $dir = $ARGV[0];
}

opendir DIR, $dir or die "Can't opendir '.': $!\n";
my @files = grep /\.csv$/i, readdir(DIR);
closedir DIR;

foreach my $file (@files) {
  my $csv = Tie::Handle::CSV->new(file => "$dir/$file");

  while (my $line = <$csv>) {
      # do nothing, just loop...
  }
}

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This will spin until hitting a line with an "extended" character, whereupon the CSV.pm will echo the offending line to STDERR and the program will die.

The filehandle is opened within the module, so I can't get at it with binmode(). What am I to do?

Will all this go away if I just move all these files up to Unix where I have Perl 5.8.5 or thereabouts.

As always, your help is appreciated!

In reply to Reading CSV Files Containing UTF8 Characters by shoness

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