Replace characters of input stream on the fly

[wytetygur]

Hello,

I'm fairly new to perl and am trying to figure out how I can open a file, start reading it and replace the Macintosh style CR line terminators with the Unix style LF line terminator and then send that output directly to the Text::CSV module.

I'd like to do this without having to write the modified input to a file, then open that file to be process by Text::CSV.

Is there a way in perl to parse the input stream and then feed the output directly to another function? Kind of like the pipe on the command line.

I've look through all the perldoc documentation but am not getting any clues to my answers.

Sorry, no code sample because I don't know how to start it yet

I'd really appreciate your help.

Thanks, Allen

[atcroft]

Could you not use something similar to the following?

  my $csv = Text::CSV->new ({ eol => qq{\r}, }) or
            die "" . Text::CSV->error_diag ();

Hope that helps.

[apl]

Write a program that opens a file, or dies if it can't be opened.

Modify the program to read one line, and display that line.

Modify that program to read each line in the file.

Modify that program to open a second, CSV file for output (dying if you can't).

Modify that program to output each read line to the CSV file.

Modify that program to change the record terminator.

Let us know at what point you have a problem. Show us your code and the error produced.

Otherwise, tell your teacher / boss you're too lazy to do the job yourself...

[anonymized user 468275]

The problem is not clearly stated and seems to be blaming the wrong "Pirate of Silicon Valley", but if you want the CR to LF conversion to be transparent to Perl and feed each line to a method from a module, you could open a pipe from the output of a dos2unix conversion process instead of the file itself and use map as an analogy to pipe:

my $csv = Text::CSV->new;
my $pid = open my $ph, 'dos2unix < inputfilename.txt |';
map $csv -> method($_), <$ph>;
...
close $ph;
waitpid $pid, 0;
...

However I can't see a method in Text::CSV you'd want to do that for. Seems more like you need to create your own routine that goes through several different CSV method calls to process each line of input.