Re: CSV cleanup problem...

[tlm]

This doesn't directly answer your question, but is this link of any use to you? (This link, BTW, asserts that Text::CSV_XS can handle embedded commas, so I'm a bit puzzled by your question.)

Update: Thanks to jZed for the cluebrick. FWIW,

split /(?<=")\s*,\s*(?=")/, $string

splits the OP's sample input into

0  '"title"'
1  '"Some Name, "some wierd title""'
2  '"555-555-5555"'

and it is a trivial matter to remove the leading and trailing double quotes from each field; e.g.:

my @fields = map { s/^"(.*)"\z/$1/; $_ }
                 split /(?<=")\s*,\s*(?=")/, $string;

[jZed]

The problem in devnul's data isn't embedded commas, or embedded quote marks (both of which Text::CSV_XS handles fine as long as the embedded quotes are escaped (by your choice of escape character). The problem with the data is un-escaped embedded quotes marks. My guess is that unless there are some rather arbitrary known things about the embedded quote marks, it will be darn tough to deal with them.