#!/usr/bin/perl use v5.12; use warnings; use autodie qw( :all ); use File::BOM; use DBI; open my $h,'>:encoding(utf-8)','test.csv'; say $h qq<\x{FEFF}"foo","bar","baz">; say $h qq<"1","2","3">; say $h qq<"4","5","6">; close $h; my $dbh=DBI->connect('dbi:CSV:',undef,undef,{ RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 0, f_ext => '.csv'}); my $sth=$dbh->prepare('select * from test'); $sth->execute(); while (my @a=$sth->fetchrow_array()) { say join(",",@a); } $sth->finish();