Hello, wise ones- I'm hoping you can help with what seems like it *should* be a rather simple issue. I have a text file of comma separated key:value pairs, like this: "evt":"Login","time":"now","msg":"Login success, welcome back!" I have been trying to use Text::CSV_XS to parse this twice- once to split the line into "key":"value" pairs, and a second time to split these into a hash. My issue is that CSV_XS seems to choke. Here's my test snippet: 
use Text::CSV_XS;

use strict;
use warnings;

my $csvfile = shift or die "No filename specified";

my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new( { 'quote_char' => '"',
                                      'sep_char' => ":",
                                      'binary' => 1, } );

my @columns;

open(FILE, $csvfile) or die "Can't open $csvfile: $!";
while (<FILE>) {

        $csv->parse($_) or die "parse() failed: " . $csv->error_input(
+);
        my @data = $csv->fields();

        for my $i (0..$#data) {
                push @{$columns[$i]}, $data[$i];
        }
}
close(FILE);

my %hash = map {shift @$_ => $_} @columns;

use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(\%hash);

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# output: parse() failed: "evt":"Login","time":"now","msg":"Login success, welcome back!" I can't figure out what is going on, since I've done this a million times. The only difference here is that my data isn't usually in "quoted" pairs, but that should make it easier! Thanks for any help!

In reply to Issue parsing CSV into hashes? by tx2010

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