Tie/CSV_File version 0.16
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Tie::CSV_File - ties a csv-file to an array of arrays

SYNOPSIS

   use Tie::CSV_File;

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

   # or to read a tabular, or a whitespace or a (semi-)colon separated file
   tie my @data, 'Tie::CSV_File', 'xyz.dat', TAB_SEPARATED;
   # or  use instead COLON_SEPARATED, SEMICOLON_SEPARATED, PIPE_SEPARATED,
   #         or even WHITESPACE_SEPARATED

   # or to read something own defined
   tie my @data, 'Tie::CSV_File', 'xyz.dat', sep_char     => '|',
                                             sep_re       => qr/\s*\|\s*/,
                                             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";

   $data[0] = [qw/Name Address Country Phone/];
   push @data, ["Gates", "Redmond",  "Washington", "0800-EVIL"];
   push @data, ["Linus", "Helsinki", "Finnland",   "0800-LINUX"];

   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
   Data::Compare
   Test::Warn

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.