If you're not converting it, then what are you doing with it?

I just went over parsing it (which you said you wanted) -- it's what you do inside the loop that determines what you do with it after that.

If you need to write the format back out, that's easy too.

So... if you could please explain a little more about what it is that you're trying to do, I could probably give an answer that you might find more useful. (and not the short view -- I know you're trying to use Text::CSV_XS or DBD::CSV, but why are you trying to use them -- what's the main objective?) I know Text::CSV_XS is for manipulation of CSV, but what sort of manipulations are you trying to do?

When the boss tells me to do something, and that I have to do it a certain way, I always come back to one quote:

"We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management
could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs."
   -- Mike Andrews in alt.sysadmin.recovery 10 October 2000
        <eUJE5.880$ln6.119642@news.flash.net>

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