The whitespaces around the separator characters are not allowed in strict CSV.
Try this below.
Cheers - Tobias
use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::CSV;
my $csv = Text::CSV->new({ allow_whitespace => 1 });
open my $fh, "<&DATA" or die "Can't access DATA: $!\n";
while (my $row = $csv->getline($fh)) {
print join("\n",@$row),"\n";
}
$csv->eof or $csv->error_diag();
__END__
"col , 1" , col___'2' , col-3, "col,4"
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From: perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com
[mailto:perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com] On Behalf Of Barry
Brevik
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 5:35 PM
To: perl Win32-users
Subject: Problem with regex
Below is some test code that will be used in a larger program.
What I am trying to do is process lines from a CSV file where some of the
'cells' have commas embedded in the (see sample code below). I might have used
text::CSV but as far as I can tell that module also can not deal with embedded
commas.
In the code below I have a regular expression who's intent is to look for " <1
or more characters> , <1 or more characters> " and replace the comma with |.
(the white space is just for clarity).
IAC, the regex works, that is, it matches, but it only replaces the final
match. I have just re-read the camel book section on regexes and have tried
many variations, but apparently I'm too close to it to see what must be a
simple answer.
BTW, if you guys think I'm posting too often, please say so.
Barry Brevik
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use strict;
use warnings;
my $csvLine = qq| "col , 1" , col___'2' , col-3, "col,4"|;
print "before comma substitution: $csvLine\n\n";
$csvLine =~ s/(\x22.+),(.+\x22)/$1|$2/s;
print "after comma substitution.: $csvLine\n\n";
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