I don't have Text::ParseWords installed on my system now. but tried a re-formulation of your code (untested), yes this last line is trouble!
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use Text::ParseWords;
my $csvfilename = "data.csv";
open( FILE, "<", $csvfilename" )
or die("Couldn't open CSV file $csvfilename:$!\n");
while ( my $line = <FILE> )
{
my @fields = quotewords( ',', 0, $line ); #no & needed!
#print will bomb with undef value later if problem
#or ( warn "problem on line $.:$_" );
#but maybe you want something like this...
warn ("less than 6 things on $line") if @fields <6;
my ($id,$brand,$dbt,$cdt,$color,$number) = (@fields)[0..5];
#my ($id,$brand) = (@fields)[0,1]; if all you need is id and brand
# print "@fields\n"; #prints all fields space separated
print join("\t",@fields),"\n"; #now with tab sparated
print "array size = ", scalar(@fields) , "\n";
print "$id\t$brand\n";
}
Update:
So the short version would be like:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use Text::ParseWords;
my $csvfilename = "data.csv";
open( FILE, "<", $csvfilename" )
or die("Couldn't open CSV file $csvfilename:$!\n");
while ( my $line = <FILE> )
{
my @fields = quotewords( ',', 0, $line ); #no & before
#quotewords() needed!
my ($id,$brand,) = (@fields)[0,1];
print "$id\t$brand\n";
}
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