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in thread Creating Reports

Are you saying that Text::ParseWords can handle every case that Text::xSV can? Why hasn't anyone ever mentioned this module? As in I've read nearly every node to do with parsing on this site for the past 3 years and I've never heard of it.

Would I be correct in thinking that the following are equivalent? 

use Text::ParseWords;

my @lines = do { open FH, $filename; <FH> };

foreach my $line (@lines)
{
    my @parsed_out = quotewords(',', undef, $line);
    # Do stuff here
}

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use Text::CSV;

my $parser = Text::CSV->new;

my @lines = do { open FH, $filename; <FH> };

foreach my $line (@lines)
{
    $parser->parse( $line );
    my @parsed_out = $parser->fields;
    # Do stuff here
}

---------------

use Text::xSV;

my $parser = Text::xSV->new;

$parser->open_file( $filename );

while (my $parsed_out = $parser->get_row)
{
    # Do stuff here
}

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Re^5: Creating Reports
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 27, 2004 at 12:53 UTC
    Why hasn't anyone ever mentioned this module? As in I've read nearly every node to do with parsing on this site for the past 3 years and I've never heard of it.

    A quick check with Super Search shows that it has been mentioned here before.

    Would I be correct in thinking that the following are equivalent?

    To be honest I'm not 100% sure. I expect that there are corner cases where Text::ParseWords doesn't do the right thing and one of the other modules does. But I've never come across one of these cases.

    I should point out that in DMP I discussed Text::CSV and not Text::ParseWords because, like you, I hadn't seen Text::ParseWords at that time. It seems to be a very underused module.

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