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andyford,
I have seen this very problem and I am willing to bet money you are wrong - there are characters at the beginning of the file that aren't not displayed however you are looking at it. Try this to see for sure:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
open(my $fh, '<', 'file.csv') or die $!;
{
    local $/ = \1;
    for (1 .. 10) {             # first 10 bytes of the file
        my $byte = <$fh>;
        print join("\t", ord($byte), $byte), "\n";
    }
}
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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: Parsing MS SQL CSV export with Text::CSV_XS by Limbic~Region
in thread Parsing MS SQL CSV export with Text::CSV_XS by andyford

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