I looked at Text::CSV_XS and may end up using that, though I still have a few things to figure out with how to do everything I listed.

The whole point about using a standard CPAN module like Text::CSV(_XS) is that someone else has already figured out how to do all the things you listed -- and that code has already been debugged and tested -- so all you need to worry about is learning to use the module correctly.

Plus, there's probably a few things you hadn't thought of yet, and there are some choices you might like to have available as options. The module will support those things too.

In reply to Re: Making CSV Files from Tab Delimited Files by graff
in thread Making CSV Files from Tab Delimited Files by MajingaZ

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