Module: Text::CSV_XS Description: Text::CSV_XS provides facilities for the composition and decomposition of comma-separated values. An instance of the Text::CSV_XS class can combine fields into a CSV string and parse a CSV string into fields. Copying: Copyright (c) 2007-2016 H.Merijn Brand. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Jochen Wiedmann. All rights reserved. Portions Copyright (c) 1997 Alan Citterman. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. Recent changes can be (re)viewed in the public GIT repository at http://repo.or.cz/w/Text-CSV_XS Feel free to clone your own copy: $ git clone https://github.com/Tux/Text-CSV_XS Text-CSV_XS or get it as a tgz: $ wget --output-document=Text-CSV_XS-git.tgz \ https://github.com/Tux/Text-CSV_XS/archive/master.tar.gz Prerequisites: perl 5.6.1 or up. You can have working Test::More for 5.6.1 by requiring version Test::Harness-2.64 and Test::Simple-0.90 I found no easy way to get Test::More working on 5.6.0 examples/csv-check requires perl with defined-or and PerlIO, and making that work on other versions is left as an exercise to the reader. Other examples are checked against 5.8.4. For Unicode to work more or less reliable, you'd need perl 5.8.2 or newer. Build/Installation: Standard build/installation: perl Makefile.PL make test make install Author: H.Merijn Brand Jochen Wiedmann Interface design by Alan Citterman A pure-perl version is being maintained by Makamaka Hannyaharamitu as Text::CSV_PP, which tries to follow Text::CSV_XS. It is not worth filing bugs to Text::CSV_XS when Text::CSV is not in sync. Text::CSV_PP is bundled in Text::CSV, which now is a wrapper module over Text::CSV_XS and Text::CSV_PP that will select Text::CSV_XS if available, and otherwise use Text::PP.