To read a CSV file there are basically three options. In increasing order of complexity.

• Use the quotewords function from the standard Text::ParseWords module
• Install the Text:CSV_XS module from CPAN
• Install the DBD:CSV module from CPAN and use a full DBI interface to the file

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