Hello,

I get third party comma separated (csv) files. A csv file can has many non-ascii chars, which should not pose a problem.

My end goal is to filter out most of the csv data and then, with the resultant csv out file, create an Excel spreadsheet using the excellent csv2xls.pl program.

I am using Text::CSV for the I/O. In the code snippet below, the offending item seems to be "or next";

while ( my $row = $csv->getline( $in_fh ) ) {
$row->4 =~ m/Hardware/ or next;
push (@rows, ($row));
}

The difference between the csv2xls.pl program choking or not choking on the final output file depends only upon whether lines of data were filtered out. If I remove the "or next" I get back my original file, and it converts to Excel just fine, ableit loaded with far too much data.

This has baffled me for over a day. Anyone have any ideas?

In reply to CSV_XS ERROR: 2027 - EIQ - Quoted field not terminated @ pos 408 by Anonymous Monk

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