Re: Parsing a text file with mutuple seperator

[email protected] writes:

> I am writing a perl script to parse a file. The data in the file is
> seperated by space/tab. However, certain fields may be empty or
> consist of mutiple words and are double quoted and this makes it
> difficut for me to do a split.
> 
> Example of data:
> ""   "This is 2nd field"
> 3                                                                  4
> 1    2
> ""                                                                 4
> 1    2                           "The field may consist of (meta)
> characters"   ""
I think Text::CSV (Text::CSV_XS) can handle this. Just set the
separator to Tab. 

-- Johan