Try the Text::CSV_XS mod. I believe it rectifies double quote problems. That topic was covered in the Data Munging with Perl book. Decent book, btw.
jab On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Chris Knipe wrote: > Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 22:33:45 +0200 > From: Chris Knipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: CSV inports... > > Lo all, > > I got a little problem with a CSV import... It should be rather straight > forward to people who do this often.. so I'm hoping for some help... > > I have a MS Excel exported CSV text file, with , separated values. The > problem now, is that some of the values also contains a , character, and MS > Excel thus put the values in a quote such as: > "blah, blah", blah, "blah, blah, blah" > > I have: > open(FILE, "<CC.csv"); > while (<FILE>) { > my ($CK, $NAME, $ADDRESS, $TYPE) = split(',', $_); > } > close(FILE); > > But this obviously does not work, seeing that it ignores values included in > the quotes "... > > How would I go about fixing this little issue? > > -- > me > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]