Dear Monks,
after some experience in parsing the csv files with split & join I try to use the modul Text::CSV_XS now. I get a problem while trying to print the file if I use getline_hr.
A bit of case history. I need to modify some values in some columns. These columns have always the same name (header) but the are at the different positions in the different csv files. I must therefore access these columns by names.
The first script below works - because I take every column by name and combine them later. This cannot be a solution because as said the required columns can be at different positions in the different files and the number of columns can be different too.

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use Text::CSV_XS;

my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new( { binary => 1, sep_char=>';' } ) or die "
+Cannot use CSV: ".Text::CSV->error_diag();

my @fields = ('ID', 'NAME','INDICATOR','VALUE','CI_LOW', 'CI_HIGH');
$csv->print( \*STDOUT, \@fields );
say  '';
 

$csv->column_names( $csv->getline( *DATA ) );

while ( my $hr = $csv->getline_hr( *DATA ) ) {
    my @nr = @{$hr}{'ID'};
    s/12/Sun/g for @nr;
    s/17/Moon/g for @nr;
    my @name = @{$hr}{'NAME'};
    my @ind = @{$hr}{'INDICATOR'};
    my @val = @{$hr}{'VALUE'};
    my @low = @{$hr}{'CI_LOW'};
    my @high = @{$hr}{'CI_HIGH'};
    
    if ($csv->combine ( @nr, @name, @ind, @val, @low, @high)) {
     print $csv->string, "\n";
     }
        else {
     print "combine () failed on argument: ",
         $csv->error_input, "\n";
     }

}

__DATA__
ID;NAME;INDICATOR;VALUE;CI_LOW;CI_HIGH
12;Name1;01;95;89;100
12;Name1;02;75;50;92
12;Name1;03;89;82;96
12;Name2;01;99;98;100
12;Name2;02;95;90;100
12;Name2;03;22;12;32
17;Name1;01;93;83;95
17;Name1;02;78;62;96
17;Name1;03;37;17;57
[download]

If I try it the other way the script shows an error:

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use Text::CSV_XS;

my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new( { binary => 1, sep_char=>';' } ) or die "
+Cannot use CSV: ".Text::CSV->error_diag();

my @fields = ('ID', 'NAME','INDICATOR','VALUE','CI_LOW', 'CI_HIGH');
$csv->print( \*STDOUT, \@fields );
say  '';
# 

$csv->column_names( $csv->getline( *DATA ) );

while ( my $hr = $csv->getline_hr( *DATA ) ) {
    # my @nr = @{$hr}{'ID'};
    s/12/Sun/g for @{$hr}{'ID'};
    s/17/Moon/g for @{$hr}{'ID'};
            
    $csv->print (*STDOUT, $hr) or $csv->error_diag;
    
    }

__DATA__
ID;NAME;INDICATOR;VALUE;CI_LOW;CI_HIGH
12;Name1;01;95;89;100
12;Name1;02;75;50;92
12;Name1;03;89;82;96
12;Name2;01;99;98;100
12;Name2;02;95;90;100
12;Name2;03;22;12;32
17;Name1;01;93;83;95
17;Name1;02;78;62;96
17;Name1;03;37;17;57
[download]

The error message is: Expected fields to be an array ref at ...
It is correct since by using geline_hr it is hash reference not array reference.
I tried it the way as [%$hr] - but no success.
Your help is very much appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
VE

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