(stephen) Re: Short (and clever?) CSV-to-AoA

[stephen]

Interesting...

The code seems to run just fine without the "unless". Doing the 'push' on it creates the inner list. (Tested.)

I'm afraid I found your description a bit misleading, since you're not actually reading comma-separated values. :) Your values are separated by spaces. You output a comma-separated value list of the columns in the database (without escaping or quoting any commas that might be in the data).

stephen

[riffraff]

I would have to agree with this, and add that even if it was changed to split ',', it still wouldn't work on fields that have embedded commas (surrounded by double quotes).

-l

[scott]

Hmmm ... it runs fine as is for me with Activestate.

Sorry about the comma confusion, I was using 'CSV' in its generic sense (like Text::CSV_XS which handles much more than commas as field delimiters).

There won't be any commas in the data. It's quite clean.

I see I've (again) assumed that everyone could read my mind and knew everything I know about the problem, sorry.

[stephen]

Yes, it runs fine with the unless() statement. What I was saying was that it also runs fine without the unless() statement. :)

You might also want to take a look at Data::Table on CPAN.

stephen

[scott]

Eeep! I could have sworn that it didn't but it certainly does today. Thanks! Now the code is even simpler.

I'll look at Data::Table.