use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper qw(Dumper); open(INPUT,"foo.csv") or die "Can't open foo.csv, $!"; my @columns; my %hash; while() { chomp; my $index=0; if(/"/) { push @{$columns[$index++]},$2 while /("+)(.*?)\1/g; } else { push @{$columns[$index++]},$1 while /([^,]+)/g; } } my @headings=map {shift @$_} @columns; print "Headings: @headings\n"; @hash{@headings}=@columns; print "Hash contents:\n"; print Dumper(\%hash);