Super Sweet CSV parsing with Perl
Today, everyday, every other day I need to pull in CSV files and write others out. After awhile, I was ready for a better solution. Lucky for me, the Perl community is amazing. For some amazing parsing options look no further than Text::CSV_XS , it provides a super sweet parsing interface. No talking just pure Perl code: use strict; use warnings; use Text::CSV_XS; my $csv = Text::CSV_XS->new( {eol => "\n"} ); # eol has nothing to do with parsing wait until later :) my $input = shift || die "Missing filename\n"; open my $fh, '<', $input or die "Failed to open $input: $!\n"; # assume no file header while ( my $columns = $csv->getline($fh) ) { print $columns->[0], $columns->[1], "\n"; # or whatever you want to do } close $csv; That's for parsing. You can do some other super cool stuff too, with bind_columns . Lets' assume the file has the format of 'first name, last name, email address'. Here the pars