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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting CSV File parse help in Perl Post 302179971 by era on Saturday 29th of March 2008 08:23:45 AM
Old 03-29-2008
That's not a CSV file, it means literally comma-separated values. Traditionally CVS also uses optional double quotes around the values, and then, depending on which wicked version of Excel it's supposed to be incompatible with, more or less insane conventions for values with double quotes in them. Newlines inside a field are also sometimes permitted in CSV.

Is the data you want always in fields 3, 4, and 7?

Code:
cut -f3,4,7 infile

If you require this in Perl, how about

Code:
perl -naF"\t" -e 'print (join ("\t", map { $F[$_] } (2, 3, 6)), "\n")'

 

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rdf::trine::exporter::csv

RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV(3pm)

NAME

       RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV - Export RDF data to CSV

VERSION

       This document describes RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV version 1.000

SYNOPSIS

	use RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV;

DESCRIPTION

       The RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV class provides an API for serializing RDF data to CSV strings and files.

METHODS

       "new ( sep_char => $sep_char, quote => $bool )"
	   Returns a new RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV object. If $sep_char is provided, it is used as the separator character in CSV serialization,
	   otherwise a comma (",") is used.

       "serialize_iterator_to_file ( $file, $iterator )"
	   Serializes the bindings objects produced by $iterator, printing the results to the supplied filehandle "<$fh">.

       "serialize_iterator_to_string ( $iterator )"
	   Serializes the bindings objects produced by $iterator, returning the result as a string.

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to through the GitHub web interface at <https://github.com/kasei/perlrdf/issues>.

AUTHOR

       Gregory Todd Williams  "<gwilliams@cpan.org>"

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2006-2012 Gregory Todd Williams. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms
       as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-06-29					    RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV(3pm)
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