Tie/CSV_File version 0.06
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SYNOPSIS

 use Tie::CSV_File;

 tie my @data, 'Tie::File', 'xyz.dat';
 print "Data in 3rd line, 5th column: ", $data[2][4];
 untie @data;

 # or to read a tabular seperated file
 tie my @data, 'Tie::File', 'xyz.dat', sep_char     => "\t",
                                       quote_char   => undef,
                                       eol          => undef, # default
                                       escape_char  => undef,
                                       always_quote => 0;     # default

 # or to read a simple white space seperated file
 tie my @data, 'Tie::File', 'xyz.dat', sep_re       => qr/\s+/,
                                       sep_char     => ' ',
                                       quote_char   => undef,
                                       eol          => undef, # default
                                       escape_char  => undef,
                                       always_quote => 0;     # default

 $data[1][3] = 4;
 $data[-1][-1] = "last column in last line";

 untie @data;

 [NOT YET IMPLEMENTED]
 push @data, [qw/Jan Feb Mar/];
 delete $data[3][2];

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

   Text::CSV_XS
   Tie::File
   Params::Validate

The test routine requires additional these other modules and libraries:

   Test::Exception
   Test::More
   File::Temp

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2002 Janek Schleicher

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