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• column_names gets my vote! (Score:1)

  by jj (2990) on 2008.04.03 14:33 (#61967) Homepage Journal

  But have you seen the interface that Text::xSV [cpan.org] uses?

    use Text::xSV;
    my $csv = new Text::xSV;
    $csv->open_file("foo.csv");
    $csv->read_header();
  
    while (my $data = $csv->fetchrow_hash) {
      # do stuff...
    }

  Personally I quite like the read_header() function.

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  • Re: Text::xSV (Score:1)

    by markjugg (792)

    That is a nice interface. If I had found that first I might have just used that instead.
    
    I think because it doesn't have "CSV" in the module name, distribution name or description, it's difficult to find by searching by on CPAN. At least it was for me.
    
    I did not that it is not an "XS" module, so would be slower than Text::CSV_XS.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Ron Savage (5224)

    I used a hashref attribute called column_names in:
    http://search.cpan.org/~rsavage/Text-CSV_PP-Iterator-1.00/ [cpan.org]
    which also discusses various similar modules.