I am using Text::CSV to read in data from a CSV file. this works well enough, but the output looks less than pretty.

Here is the perl code I'm using:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::CSV;

my $file = 'test.csv';

my $csv = Text::CSV->new();

open (CSV, "<", $file) or die $!;

while (<CSV>) {
    if ($csv->parse($_)) {
        my @columns = $csv->fields();
        print "@columns\n";
    } else {
        my $err = $csv->error_input;
        print "Failed to parse line: $err";
    }
}
close CSV;

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Here is a sample of data from the CSV file:

Account,Login Name,Password,Web Site,Comments
Google Docs,george123,F0oB@r,http://www.google.com/docs,The GoodleDocs
+ site
Amazon,george123,fo0bA7,http://www.amazon.com,The Amazone Kindle site
Apple,george123,mM_B39Aa,https://www.apple.com/accountmanagement,My Ap
+ple account

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When I use my perl script to parse this, here is what I get:

Account Login Name Password Web Site Comments
Google Docs george123 F0oB@r http://www.google.com/docs The GoodleDocs
+ site
Amazon george123 fo0bA7 http://www.amazon.com The Amazone Kindle site
Apple george123 mM_B39Aa https://www.apple.com/accountmanagement My Ap
+ple account

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As you can see, the columns don't line up well to make it readable.

Here is what I'd like it to look like:

Account 	Login Name 	Password	Web Site 				Comments
Google Docs 	george123 	F0oB@r 		http://www.google.com/docs 		The GoodleDocs site
Amazon 		george123 	fo0bA7 		http://www.amazon.com/kindle 		The Amazone Kindle site
Apple 		george123 	mM_B39Aa	https://www.apple.com/accountmanagement My Apple account

I haven't been able to figure out how to get it formatted all purdy like it is above and would appreciate any help you could give

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