AnyDat...t::CSV(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

AnyData::Format::CSV — bestie, this is the plug-in that gives you tiedhash and DBI/SQL access to your CSV data. Yes, both. She does it all. 👑

(oh and psst, the manual name is AnyData::Format::CSV(3pm) in case you were wondering who you're talking to 🎀)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so like, two ways to pull up. option one, the tied hash situation:

use AnyData;
my $table = adTable( 'CSV', $filename,'r',$flags );
while (my $row = each %$table) {
   print $row->{name},"\n" if $row->{country} =~ /us|mx|ca/;
}
# ... other tied hash operations

OR — and this is the one that's giving SQL main character energy:

use DBI
my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:AnyData:');
$dbh->func('table1','CSV', $filename,$flags,'ad_catalog');
my $hits = $dbh->selectall_arrayref( qq{
    SELECT name FROM table1 WHERE country = 'us'
});
# ... other DBI/SQL operations

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so real talk: this is a plug-in format parser for the AnyData and DBD::AnyData modules. that's her whole job and she slays at it 💅

the way she works is, she'll read your column names straight off the first row of the file — OR, if you're feeling opinionated, she'll just accept names you pass in yourself. no biggie, your call bestie 🫶

and it's not just column names you get to control. you can set all of these options too:

• col_names — a comma separated list of column names
• eol — the end of record mark, \n by default
• quote_char — the character used to quote fields, " by default
• escape_char — the character used to escape the quote char, " by default

🚨 okay IMPORTANT, do not skip this: if you're using this with DBD::AnyData, you gotta put ad_ in front of the flags. like ad_eol. for real for real, don't forget or she will not know what you're asking for 😭

and if you want the full lore, please refer to the documentation for AnyData.pm and DBD::AnyData.pm for further details. they've got the deep cuts, iykyk 📚

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🎀 AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT 🎀

copyright 2000, Jeff Zucker <jeff@vpservices.com> all rights reserved

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okay that's the whole page bestie, you're officially educated ✨ this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-08-06, and that's a wrap — go write some CSV code, you've got this 💖🦋🌸