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From: RICHARD FERNANDEZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:37 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: RE: parsing a CSV file with more fields than column names
>> Are you SURE that there might be commas in the other fields?
>> I wou
> Are you SURE that there might be commas in the other fields?
> I would hope that whoever made this file you're parsing would
> have thought of this if they ever intended to later use the data.
Good point. But I have no way of verifying that.
These CSV files are provided to me by an outside sou
-Original Message-
From: RICHARD FERNANDEZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 2:04 PM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: RE: parsing a CSV file with more fields than column names
> > Hello Rich
>
> Hi, Chris, thanks for your response
>
>
>>
> Hello Rich
Hi, Chris, thanks for your response
>
> See docs for perlfunc, specifically split.
>
> Especially, the form for split
> 'split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT'
>
> By setting the limit, you will be able to solve the problem.
>
> Chris
>
The thing is I can't be sure that there will ne
CHARD FERNANDEZ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 8:18 AM
To: beginners@perl.org
Subject: parsing a CSV file with more fields than column names
Hello All,
I'm just trying to get some ideas for the best way to approach this...
I have a CSV file whose first line is a header. Ac
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From: ""RICHARD FERNANDEZ"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: perl.beginners
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Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 11:17 AM
Subject: parsing a CSV file with more fields than column names
Hello All,
I'm just trying to get some ideas fo
Hello All,
I'm just trying to get some ideas for the best way to approach this...
I have a CSV file whose first line is a header. According to this header
there should be 17 values per line. Unfortunately this is not the case.
It seems that the first 16 header values match up with the first 16
va
