As Anonymous Monk already said, parsing from strings is supported from the early days, not only by the PerlIO layer (file handles on scalars are natively supported) but also directly from strings.:

my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new ({ binary => 1, auto_diag => 1 });

# Using ScalarIO
open my $fh, "<", \$csv_stream;
while (my $row = $csv->getline ($fh)) {
    # just like a file, but now on a string ...
    }
close $fh;

# Using strings directly. Much less reliable!
foreach my $line (@csv_strings) {
    my @row = $csv->parse ($line);
    }

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Don't try to rewrite a CSV parser. The de-facto parsers Text::CSV_XS and Text::CSV have been tested by millions and already have dozens of options and features as requested by the community.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re: lightweight CSV parser by Tux
in thread lightweight CSV parser by wrinkles

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