Re^2: Writing CSV files

[tachyon]

The default behavior for Text::CSV_XS works as you want things to.

Actually what you have shown and what Text::CSV_XS does has no relationship whatsoever to what the OP wanted.

[steves]

You are correct tachyon. It took me three cups of coffee to see that. My apologies. The issue here is rather custom since none of the CSV packages I've used will tell you if something was quoted coming in -- they hide that. It seems like to do this right you need to know what was quoted coming in and mirror that on the way out. If the rules are based on content (e.g., something that can be regexp matched) then maybe you don't need to know how it was originally.