If you can't write a correct (according to RFC 4180) CSV parser in 15 lines of Perl then you're not a Real Programmer! (Yes, I understand that not all CSV file

If you can't write a correct (according to RFC 4180) CSV parser in 15 lines of Perl then you're not a Real Programmer! (Yes, I understand that not all CSV files in the wild are correct according to RFC 4180. Yes, I also understand that only grey-beard loons still use Perl.) The strangest thing about CSV, I think, is that if there's only one field per record and the file ends with a CRLF then you can't tell whether there's a final record containing an empty field following that CRLF. It's probably best to assume there isn't.