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Revision: 24560
at March 3, 2010 18:16 by bionic


Initial Code
#! /usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Text::CSV;

# generate XML from CSV files
#


my $csv = Text::CSV->new(
    {
        binary => 1, # binary for utf8, latin1 etc
        sep_char => "\t"
    }
) or die "Cannot use CSV: ".Text::CSV->error_diag ();

$csv->eol("
");

binmode(STDIN, ":utf8");
binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8");

foreach (@ARGV) {
    open my $input, "<:encoding(utf8)", $_ or die "test.csv: $!";

    print "<csv filename=\"$_\">";
    while (my $colref = $csv->getline($input)) {
        print "<row>" .
        join("", map { "<cell>$_</cell>" } @$colref ) .
              "</row>\n";
    }
    print "</csv>\n";
}

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Initial Description
Useful perl snippet to convert csv docs to xml from Ankh on the freenode #xml irc channel

Initial Title
csv2xml perl version

Initial Tags
xml, csv

Initial Language
Perl