You wrote:

Being a novice not sure why or whatelse to look for but it is interesting your code works and mine does not. One other thing I found is my records are terminated with CRLF which I was able to pass to DBD::AnyData and parse the records fine and with DBD::CSV I use just the \n and it parses the records fine while if I pass DBD::AnyData just the \n it does not parse the records at all.

Well, don't look any further, that is the answer. Neither module can parse CSV files without knowing what the record terminator is. In DBD://AnyData, the default is "\n", in other words the line terminator for the OS on which the program is running. In DBD::CSV the default is "\015\012" (CRLF) which will only be the same as the line terminator when the program is running in windows.

Thanks for following up and letting me know how you resolved the issue.