Hi everyone, I am tried to parse a CSV file. The problem i 'm having is that certain fields of that file have commas inside them as well as carriage return characters. Now i tried using CSV_XS and setting as follows

$csv = Text::CSV_XS->new({binary => 1});
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This does not seem to have any effect and returns broken records. The following is an example of what i did:

 $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new({binary => 1});

    while (<INFILE>) {
    #while ($csv->parse($_))
    if (/"X"/) {   #The trash data has these 3 characters in it
          print "THERE IS TRASH IN THE FILE:: $_\n";
    }
    elsif ($first_line==1){
        $first_line=0;
    }
    else {  #Now to deal with the data I want to keep
          if($csv->parse($_)) {       #checks to see if data exists in
+ $_ and     +parses it if it does
        my @fields=$csv->fields;  # puts the values from each field in
+ an     +array
        my $elements=@fields;     #gets the number of elements in the 
+arra    +y
     my $x=0;
#        for ($x=0;$x<$elements;$x++) {
       #   print "$fields[$x]\t";
       print "\n";
        if ($fields[$x]=~ m/\d+/i){
           print "LOGID: $fields[$x++]\n";
           print "LOGDATE: $fields[$x++]\n";
           print "EMPID: $fields[$x++]\n";
           print "CATEGORY: $fields[$x++]\n";
           print "SUBCAT: $fields[$x++]\n";
           print "OS: $fields[$x++]\n";
           print "DESCR: $fields[$x++]\n";
           print "ACTION: $fields[$x++]\n";
           print "ASSIGNTO: $fields[$x++]\n";
           print "STATUS: $fields[$x++]\n";
        }
        else
        
        { print "\problematic field found ";
            
         $counterp++;
           print "LOGID: $fields[$x++]\n";

    #        $asdf=<>;
            
        }

#        }
        $counter++;
      }
    }
}
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I am not sure what i am doing wrong but it probably has to do with While <INFILE>, I would appreciate any help i could get

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