Thank you very much Tux!
Indeed, with this new module and the "getline()" method, the job can be done in a very reasonable time! The increase in speed that I experienced was in the order of 30x rather than 100x, but that's certainly more than enough to make me happy!

But that's raises another question (and this time, it's really a question about "perl wisdom" and not about "perl how-to"). Since both Text::CSV and Text::CSV_XS are object oriented, and since both implement the same methods, and since one is clearly faster than the other, why wasn't the code of the slower one simply replaced by the code of the faster one? In other words, why two different modules to do the same thing?

In reply to Re^2: Efficiency issue when reading large CSV files by Takuan Soho
in thread Efficiency issue when reading large CSV files by Takuan Soho

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