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A number of other modules have attempted to put usability wrappers around
this venerable module, but they have all focused on parsing the entire
file into memory at once.

This method is fine unless your CSV files start to get large. Once that
happens, the only existing option is to fall back on the relatively slow
and heavyweight L<XML::SAXDriver::CSV> module.

L<Parse::CSV> fills this functionality gap. It provides a flexible
and light-weight streaming parser for large, extremely large, or
arbitrarily large CSV files.

=head2 Main Features

B<Stream-Based Parser> - All parsing a line at a time.

B<Array Mode> - Parsing can be done in simple array mode, returning
a reference to an array if the columns are not named.

B<Hash Mode> - Parsing can be done in hash mode, putting the data into