Thanks Tux, I converted my split functions to use Text::CSV. Here's the new and much-improved code: 
sub _moredata_array {
  my ($datastring, $datasep_cfg) = @_;
  use Text::CSV;
  my $csv = Text::CSV->new ({ binary => 1, auto_diag => 1,  sep_char =
+> "$datasep_cfg" });
  my $io;
  open ($io, "<:encoding(utf8)", \$datastring) or die "Cannot use CSV:
+ $!".Text::CSV->error_diag ();
  my $row = $csv->getline ($io);
  $row || undef;
}

 sub _moredata_hash {
  my ($datastring, $hashsep) = @_;
  use Text::CSV;
  my $csv = Text::CSV->new ({ binary => 1, auto_diag => 1,  sep_char =
+> "$hashsep" });
  my $io;
  open ($io, "<:encoding(utf8)", \$datastring) or die "Cannot use CSV:
+ $!".Text::CSV->error_diag ();
  my %hash;
  while (my $colref = $csv->getline($io)) {
    my $count = scalar @{$colref};
    die "$count is an odd number of keys and values at @{$colref}.\n" 
+if ($count%2); 
    $hash{$colref->[0]} = $colref->[1];
   }
  scalar %hash ? \%hash : undef;
}

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