You're confusing the filehandle with the record being read.

Using more code than is really necessary to demonstrate the point: 

open my $filehandle, ...

while (my $record = <$filehandle>) {
    chomp $record;  # Remove the newline
    # Do stuff with the record text, e.g.
    my @fields = split /$field_separator/ => $record;
    ...
}

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That would normally be coded more succinctly as: 

open my $filehandle, ...

while (<$filehandle>) {
    chomp;  # Remove the newline
    # Do stuff with the record text, e.g.
    my @fields = split /$field_separator/;
    ...
}

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In the second code fragment, all instances of $record (from the first fragment) are now $_, which (being the default for chomp, split, and many other functions) can be omitted.

And, just in case it wasn't obvious, that was for general enlightenment, not a recommendation to attempt your own version of Text::CSV. :-)

-- Ken

In reply to Re^3: csv to hash table by kcott
in thread csv to hash table by waytoperl

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