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.IX Title "Data::TableReader::Decoder::IdiotCSV 3pm"
.TH Data::TableReader::Decoder::IdiotCSV 3pm 2024-04-12 "perl v5.38.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH NAME
Data::TableReader::Decoder::IdiotCSV \- Access rows of a badly formatted comma\-delimited text file
.SH VERSION
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 0.014
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This decoder is like ::Decoder::CSV, but can additionally
parse the garbage resulting from those special people who write "CSV Export" code
that looks like
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.Vb 1
\&  print join(",", map qq{"$_"}, @record)."\en";
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(or rather, the equivalent code in Visual Basic or PHP which is what they're
probably using)  regardless of their data containing quote characters or newlines,
resulting in garbage like:
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.Vb 2
\&  "First Name","Last Name","email"
\&  "Joseph "Joe","Smith",""Smith, Joe" <jsmith@example.com>"
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This can actually be processed by (recent versions of) the Text::CSV module
with the following configuration:
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.Vb 6
\&  {
\&    binary => 1,
\&    allow_loose_quotes => 1,
\&    allow_whitespace => 1,
\&    escape_char => undef,
\&  }
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And so this module is simply a subclass of Data::TableReader::Decoder::CSV
which provides those defaults to the parser.
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How does the parsing work though?  Well, some guesswork and patterns.  It's not super
reliable, and you should always complain loudly to whoever generated that data,
unless they're a much larger company than you and would never listen, or went
out of business a while back, in which case you can justify using this module
in production.
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Michael Conrad <mike@nrdvana.net>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2024 by Michael Conrad.
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This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.