It's true that Text::CSV does not directly handle multiline fields, but I found it quite easy to get around
My task was to export/import a set of requirements between tools, for which purpose I (amongst others) needed to add a field and sort the input recursively by parent reference (using
Sort::Naturally)
On reading, I created multilines as
while ( my $line = $csv->getline($fh) ) {
# Manipulation of unsorted fields during import
my @multiline = join(';',@{$line});
push @content, @multiline ;
}
if (not $csv->eof) {
$csv->error_diag();
}
and on printing back, I entered data field by field as
for my $line (@result) {
my @fields = split(/;/,$line);
# Manipulation of sorted fields during export
print $fh "$_;" foreach @fields;
print $fh "\n";
}
with csv object created as
$csv = Text::CSV->new({ binary => 1, auto_diag => 1, sep_char => ';' });
I.e. I never bothered to try using the module for writing back data, nor other suggestions as from above :)
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