SUMMARY

I often need to take a CSV file that has a header row and turn it into a perl data structure for further manipulation. This package does that in as few steps as possible.

I added a create method in version 0.8 because sometimes you just want to create some bog standard CSV from an array of hashes.

USAGE

use Text::CSV::Slurp;
use strict;

# load data from CSV input

my $data = Text::CSV::Slurp->load(file       => $filename   [,%options]);
my $data = Text::CSV::Slurp->load(filehandle => $filehandle [,%options]);
my $data = Text::CSV::Slurp->load(string     => $string     [,%options]);

# create a string of CSV from an array of hashes
my $csv  = Text::CSV::Slurp->create( input => \@array_of_hashes [,%options]);

METHODS

new

my $slurp = Text::CSV::Slurp->new();

Instantiate an object.

load

my $data = Text::CSV::Slurp->load(file => $filename);
my $data = $slurp->load(file => $filename);

Returns an arrayref of hashrefs. Any extra arguments are passed to Text::CSV. The first line of the CSV is assumed to be a header row. Its fields are used as the keys for each of the hashes.

create

my $csv = Text::CSV::Slurp->create( input => \@array_of_hashes [,%options]);
my $csv = $slurp->create( input => \@array_of_hashes [,%options]);

my $file = "/path/to/output/file.csv";

open( FH, ">$file" ) || die "Couldn't open $file $!";
print FH $csv;
close FH;

Creates CSV from an arrayref of hashrefs and returns it as a string. All optional arguments are passed to Text::CSV except for field_order.

field_order

field_order which is used to determine the fields and order in which they appear in the CSV. For example:

my $csv = Text::CSV::Slurp->create( input => \@array_of_hashes,
                                    field_order => ['one','three','two'] );

If field_order is not supplied then the sorted keys of the first hash in the input are used instead.

DEPENDENCIES

Text::CSV

IO::File

Test::Most - for tests only

LICENCE

GNU General Public License v3

SOURCE

Available at https://github.com/babf/Text-CSV-Slurp

SEE ALSO

Text::CSV

Spreadsheet::Read

THANKS

To Kyle Albritton for suggesting and testing the create method To Tomas Pokorny for the IO::Scalar patch for the load method