Module

Text::CSV_XS

Description

Text::CSV_XS provides facilities for the composition and decomposition of comma-separated values. An instance of the Text::CSV_XS class can combine fields into a CSV string and parse a CSV string into fields.

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Copyright (c) 2007-2011 H.Merijn Brand. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Jochen Wiedmann. All rights reserved. Portions Copyright (c) 1997 Alan Citterman. All rights reserved.

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

Recent changes can be (re)viewed in the public GIT repository at http://repo.or.cz/w/Text-CSV_XS.git Feel free to clone your own copy:

$ git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/Text-CSV_XS.git Text-CSV-XS

or get it as a tgz:

     $ wget --output-document=Text-CSV_XS-git.tgz \
               'http://repo.or.cz/w/Text-CSV_XS.git?a=snapshot;sf=tgz'

Prerequisites

perl 5.005_03. 5.005 will not be able to build the manual pages. examples require 5.006, but are probably easy to mold into 5.005 examples/csv-check requires perl with defined-or and PerlIO, and making that work on other versions is left as an exercise to the reader.

Build/Installation:

Standard build/installation:

        perl Makefile.PL
        make
        make test
        make install

(The 'make' step cannot be omitted for perl-5.005)

Author

H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> Jochen Wiedmann <joe@ispsoft.de>

Interface design by Alan Citterman <alan@mfgrtl.com>

A pure-perl version is being maintained by Makamaka Hannyaharamitu as Text::CSV_PP, which tries to follow Text::CSV_XS very closely.

Text::CSV_PP is bundled in Text::CSV, which now is a wrapper module over Text::CSV_XS and Text::CSV_PP that will select Text::CSV_XS if available, and otherwise use Text::PP.