This may be a situation where you're forced to forgo the use of the convenience function, getline_hr, and roll your own code to generate a hash of the field values keyed by field labels. I do this a lot myself because I'm forced to use a version of Text::CSV_XS that predates the introduction of getline_hr.

my $value_of;
$csv->parse();
@value_of{ @ordered_field_labels } = $csv->fields();

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Typically, I get the ordered field labels from the CSV file header.

my @ordered_field_labels;

while (my $csv_record = <>) {
    $csv->parse($csv_record);
    my @values = $csv->fields();

    if ($INPUT_LINE_NUMBER == 1) {
        @ordered_field_labels = @values;
        # ...
    }

    # ...
}

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It's not inelegant. It's just a little less convenient.

(The blank lines are outside any quoted strings, right? They're not literal blank lines within fields are they?)

In reply to Re: Text::CSV_XS and blank lines by Jim
in thread Text::CSV_XS and blank lines by constantreader

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