So it would be very nice to add Text::CSV to the base of Perl to keep up with the competition ... an opportunity for positive press about keeping with the times and "data science" and such

After some random googling on this topic, I am unconvinced of the marketing value of adding CSV support to the Perl core.

I'm happy to be corrected, but suspect that YAML, XML, and JSON, for example, all have far higher sex appeal than CSV -- at least those three are listed at Data exchange on wikipedia while CSV is not.

I'm also unsure of the best way to find out what data exchange/data serialization formats are currently supported in Perl core. Based on How To Identify or List Core Modules, I tried these commands just now on perl 5.38 on Linux: 

$ corelist -v 5.38.0 >corelist.tmp
$ wc -l corelist.tmp
649 corelist.tmp

$ grep -i JSON corelist.tmp
JSON::PP                                     4.16
JSON::PP::Boolean                            4.16

$ grep -i YAML corelist.tmp
CPAN::Exception::yaml_not_installed          5.5
CPAN::Exception::yaml_process_error          5.5
CPAN::Meta::YAML                             0.018
TAP::Parser::Result::YAML                    3.44
TAP::Parser::YAMLish::Reader                 3.44
TAP::Parser::YAMLish::Writer                 3.44

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Opinions/improvements welcome.

In reply to Re: Promoting Text::CSV to base Perl? by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Promoting Text::CSV to base Perl? by mldvx4

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