I need to parse CSV files in the UTF-16LE encoding of Unicode. Here are the metacharacters used in the UTF-16LE CSV files:

There are no embedded newlines. Lines are terminated by "a carriage return and line feed pair (ASCII/CRLF=0x0D 0x0A)" (to quote from the Text::CSV_XS documentation). Actually, the line terminators in UTF-16LE are U+000D U+000A (\x0D\x00 \x0A\x00).

The UTF-16LE files have byte-order marks in them.

I'm using Perl 5.10.0; specifically, build 1005 of ActivePerl under Windows XP SP2. I have these modules installed:

What module should I use to parse these CSV files?

Can someone please provide me a jumpstart? How do I use these modules to parse these UTF-16LE CSV files? I'm a little confused by the multiple modules and their documentation, despite this informative thread from last month.

Thanks!

In reply to Parsing UTF-16LE CSV Records Using Text::CSV* by Jim

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