Re: MySQL and loading tables from a file.

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Jason Burke said:
>   @fields = split(/,/, $_);   # I don't think I need to escape the , here.

Unfortunately, that's overly simplistic.  Excel likes to do things
like

    "a field","a field that's really, really hard to parse",etc.

If you just split on /,/, you'll get

    (q/"a field"/, q/"a field that's really/, q/really hard to parse"/,
     q/etc./)

Not exactly right, huh?

It would probably be better to look at either the DBD::CSV module or
the Text::CSV module.

Steve
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