Re: [FWP] a better tab-delimited test parser

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 11:26:42AM -0300, martin langhoff wrote:
> After looking in vain for a pm that implemented a tab-delimited file
> parser

Text::ParseWords, Text::CSV, Text::CSV_XS and DBD::CSV.

Text::ParseWords is the simplest of the lot, DBD::CSV is the most
expandable (if you're into DBI and SQL).

Parsing out a deliminated text file was one of the first jobs I ever
had to do.  It was a comma seperated MLS (Multiple List Search, the
thing real estate brokers use to find houses) file with MISTAKES in it
(MLS is a piece of crap).  I had to do some tinkering to
Text::ParseWords to make it DWIM (any my name's still in the man page! 
cool!)


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