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Are you able to install Perl Modules? If so, install Text::CSV, and let me know when this is done.

There are two reasons that the Module may serve you well in this case. The first is that it's generally a best practice to use a Module that's built to handle csv files. In your case, the csv format wasn't complex, i.e., commas within quoted fields, so just splitting on commas was OK. However, thinking long-term, your data may get more complex, and Text::CSV would be able to handle it.

The second reason is based upon the error messages you shared. The variable $vars was uninitialized when it should have contained a value. This may be an issue of the csv file containing binary data, but I'm not sure. Text::CSV can handle this, too.

Let me know...

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Re^9: Processing CSV File
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 05, 2012 at 04:58 UTC

    Thanks for the reply Kenosis
    I was trying to steer clear of installing modules, as the script could be used on different machines at any time all over the place, of which some I do not have control.. so was hoping to have a script that worked 'out of the box' on any machine.
    Do you think there would be any way around it?
    If there really is no other way, then perhaps I will need to explore that option.. but would prefer not to if at all possible
    Thanks

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      Give the following change a try:

      open my $csvfh, '<:crlf', $csvFile or die "Unable to open $csvFile: $!
+";
                  ^
                  |
                  + - Add the :crlf

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        Same error as before.. 

        Use of uninitialized value $vars in chomp at create-configs.pl line 18
+, <$csvfh> line 1.
Use of uninitialized value $vars in split at create-configs.pl line 19
+, <$csvfh> line 1.

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