Hey,

In regional settings all this country uses semicolon instead comma as CSV separator so I need to replace default comma separator with semicolon. I use Spreadsheet::Read module.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Std;

use Spreadsheet::Read;
use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel;

my $ref = ReadData ("test.csv");

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While this works for any XLS file I have problems with CSV files. The $ref variable remains empty. I even added use Text::CSV_XS (or Text::CSV_PP) but $ref remained empty.

Then I modified the last line:

my $ref = ReadData ("test.csv", sep => ';');

or

my $ref = ReadData ("test.csv", sep => ';',quote => '"');

Before I type the last line debugger reports the following error (in the line with one or both arguments):

Too many arguments for Spreadsheet::Read::ReadData

The CSV parsing module theoretically should detect separator - but it doesn't. I'm out of ideas.

Thanks in advance for your help!

In reply to Parsing CSV table by JackVanRamars

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