in reply to Parsing CSV table

That message indicates that you are using a very old Spreadsheet::Read, as ReadData () accepts (multiple) options since at least 2007 (that is how far my git repo goes back).

$ cat test.csv foo;bar;dog 1;2;Bull $ perl -MData::Peek -MSpreadsheet::Read -wle'my $ref = ReadData ("test +.csv", sep => ";",quote => q{"});DDumper $ref' [ { parser => 'Text::CSV_XS', quote => '"', sepchar => ';', sheet => { 'test.csv' => 1 }, sheets => 1, type => 'csv', version => '0.73' }, { A1 => 'foo', A2 => 1, B1 => 'bar', B2 => 2, C1 => 'dog', C2 => 'Bull', attr => [], cell => [ [], [ undef, 'foo', 1 ], [ undef, 'bar', 2 ], [ undef, 'dog', 'Bull' ] ], label => 'test.csv', maxcol => 3, maxrow => 2 } ] $

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn