You might want to look at Text::xSV ( http://search.cpan.org/~tilly/Text-xSV-0.13/ ). It handles embedded linefeeds.
--Rhet On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:43:59 -0600, Eric Wilhelm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've written some code before which uses the CSV.pm module (has this > never appeared on CPAN?) But had to step-through the number of > quotes and read-in some extra lines to get a full record (where > linefeeds are embedded in fields.) > > That was a terribly memory hog, and entangled with some task-specific > code (but I'm a better programmer now than I was two years ago.) So, > I thought I would take a look at CPAN before I try to round-off this > square wheel. From the looks of it, there isn't anything there for > this. > > I looked at Text::CSV_XS and messed with Text::CSV::Simple, but both > of these seem to want a record to be only on one line. > > I couldn't get AnyData::Format::CSV to work using either form of the > examples (could be that it isn't dying properly on errors?) > > Tie::Handle::CSV looked promising, but also chokes on the embedded > linefeeds. > > Any suggestions? Did I miss something? I would be happy to subclass > one of these and rewrite my step-over-linefeeds code into it, but I > can't help but think it must have been done before. > > Thanks, > Eric > -- > "Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value." > --Murphy's Constant >
