NAME

Text::CSV_PP::Simple - Simpler parsing of CSV files [PP version]

SYNOPSIS

use Text::CSV_PP::Simple;
my $parser = Text::CSV_PP::Simple->new; my @data = $parser->read_file($datafile); print @$_ foreach @data;

# Only want certain fields?
my $parser = Text::CSV::Simple->new; $parser->want_fields(1, 2, 4, 8);
my @data = $parser->read_file($datafile);

# Map the fields to a hash?
my $parser = Text::CSV_PP::Simple->new; $parser->field_map(qw/id name null town/); my @data = $parser->read_file($datafile);

DESCRIPTION

Text::CSV_PP::Simple simply provide a little wrapper around Text::CSV_PP to streamline the common case scenario.

METHODS

new

my $parser = Text::CSV_PP::Simple->new(\%options);

Construct a new parser. This takes all the same options as Text::CSV_PP.

field_map

$parser->field_map(qw/id name null town null postcode/);

        Rather than getting back a listref for each entry in your CSV file, you
        often want a hash of data with meaningful names. If you set up a field_map
        giving the name you'd like for each field, then we do the right thing
        for you! Fields named 'null' vanish into the ether.

want_fields

$parser->want_fields(1, 2, 4, 8);

        If you only want to extract certain fields from the CSV, you can set up
        the list of fields you want, and, hey presto, those are the only ones
        that will be returned in each listref. The fields, as with Perl arrays,
        are zero based (i.e. the above example returns the second, third, fifth
        and ninth entries for each line)

read_file

my @data = $parser->read_file($filename);

        Read the data in the given file, parse it, and return it as a list of
        data.

        Each entry in the returned list will be a listref of parsed CSV data.

AUTHOR

Kota Sakoda C<< <cohtan@cpan.org> >>

SEE ALSO

Text::CSV_XS, Text::CSV_PP, Text::CSV::Simple

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2007, Kota Sakoda

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.