[TriLUG] Perl CSV

[Rob Fitch]

Ok
On Nov 16, 2013 6:59 PM, "Aaron Joyner" <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:

> CSV always gets interesting when you start handling quoted fields, which
> might include embedded commas...
> On Nov 16, 2013 6:29 PM, "Greg Brown" <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Interesting.  What benefits do you find using the Perl Text::CSV module.
>  I
> > work with .csv files literally all the time (no joke) but I've stuck with
> > the tried and true method of the following:
> >
> > my $infile=somecsvfile.csv
> > my $line;
> > my @line;
> >
> > open(INFILE,$infile) || die "can't open $infile: $!\n";
> >
> > foreach $line (<INFILE>) {
> >
> >      chomp($line);
> >      $line =~ s/\s+/ /g; # get rid of extra spaces
> >      @line = split(/\,/,$line); # split the line at the commas
> >
> >      # send hostname and IP address to the subscript and ssh to device
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at buadh-brath.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 02:21:37PM -0500, Brian McCullough wrote:
> > > > I am sure that somebody here has some experience with the Perl
> > Text::CSV
> > > > mondule.
> > >
> > > Call off the dogs, thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > > I am trying to use it again, but every row, after $csv->parse, is
> > > > reporting that there is only one element in the array.
> > > >
> > > >       $status = $csv->parse( $row ) ;
> > > >       @cols = $csv->fields ;
> > > >       $col_cnt = @cols ;
> > >
> > > I found that I was much more successful removing the above, and
> > > replacing it with:
> > >
> > >  @cols = @$row ;
> > >  $col_cnt = @cols ;
> > >
> > >
> > > Go figure, as they say.
> > >
> > >
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