Hi All, I don't use perl very often and TEXT::CSV_XS is kicking my ass.

I would use Text::CVS which was working great for me except that it doesn't handle french characters.

I also have to use a different seperator because some field have multiple comma separated characters. This is the data:

374|Mike who|kelticjan|mike@someemail.com|23/2/2012 10:57:32|0|0|Mike|
+Clements|90 Street Ave|Halifax|New Brunswick|1t5 7y7|516-555-5555|lol
+ Transportation Inc.|a||a||||a,b,c,d,e,g,h,i,j,k||a|a|a|a|a,b,c,d,e|I
+dle time / miles per gallon|a,b,c||b||a,d,f,g,h|
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this is what I am trying to do to parse it and print it out with no separator character.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Text::CSV_XS;


 my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new ({
     quote_char          => '"',
     escape_char         => '"',
     sep_char            => "|",
     eol                 => $\,
     always_quote        => 0,
     quote_space         => 1,
     quote_null          => 1,
     quote_binary        => 1,
     binary              => 1,
     keep_meta_info      => 0,
     allow_loose_quotes  => 0,
     allow_loose_escapes => 0,
     allow_whitespace    => 0,
     blank_is_undef      => 0,
     empty_is_undef      => 0,
     verbatim            => 0,
     auto_diag           => 0,
     }) or
     die "Cannot use CSV: ".Text::CSV_XS->error_diag ();
  
     open my $FH, "<:encoding(utf8)", "test.csv" or die "test.csv: $!"
+;
  
  
  

     while (my $line = $csv->getline ($FH)){
        if ($csv->parse (@$line)) {    
 
            my @field = $csv->fields;
     
            foreach my $col (0 .. $#field) {
         
               print $field[$col], "\n" ;
     
            }
        }
        else {
           print STDERR "parse () failed on argument: ",
           $csv->error_input, "\n";
           $csv->error_diag ();
        }
}
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this is the output:

374

I've tried a bunch of ways and seem to be confused ... I'd appreciate some help.

Thanks Mike

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