Apparently Paradox outputs CSV data in this dubious style.
BTW, I forgot to mention how pleased I otherwise am with Text::CSV_XS - highly
functional and about 10 times faster then Text::CSV in our environment.
David Pitt
david.pitt@bigpond.com
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On Wednesday, 28 July 2004 5:33 PM, Text-CSV_XS
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> Text::CSV_XS fails to parse data of the form:
>
> 0,0,0,0,0,0,2476,3674,0,0,0,0,0,""19/07/2004"",,
>
> The reason is the unescaped double quotes around the date, it expects:
>
> 0,0,0,0,0,0,2476,3674,0,0,0,0,0,"""19/07/2004""",,
>
> However Text::ParseWords::quotewords handles it. If Text::CSV_XS fails I then
> try Text::ParseWords::quotewords which handles this quoting style correctly.
>
> This is ugly, it would be better if Text::CSV_XS also handled this style.
