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NAME

Text::CSV::BulkData - generate csv file with bulk data

SYNOPSIS

  use Text::CSV::BulkData;

  my $output_file = "/your/dir/example.dat";
  my $format = "0907000%04d,JPN,160-%04d,type000%04d,0120444%04d,20080418100000\n";

  my $gen = Text::CSV::BulkData->new($output_file, $format);

  my $pattern_1 = [undef,'*2','+2',undef];
  $gen->initialize
      ->set_pattern($pattern_1)
      ->set_start(1)
      ->set_end(5)
      ->make;
  my $pattern_2 = [undef,'/10','-2','%2'];
  $gen->set_pattern($pattern_2)
      ->set_start(6)
      ->set_end(10)
      ->make;

This sample generates following csv file.

  09070000001,JPN,160-0002,type0000003,01204440001,20080418100000
  09070000002,JPN,160-0004,type0000004,01204440002,20080418100000
  09070000003,JPN,160-0006,type0000005,01204440003,20080418100000
  09070000004,JPN,160-0008,type0000006,01204440004,20080418100000
  09070000005,JPN,160-0010,type0000007,01204440005,20080418100000
  09070000006,JPN,160-0000,type0000004,01204440000,20080418100000
  09070000007,JPN,160-0000,type0000005,01204440001,20080418100000
  09070000008,JPN,160-0000,type0000006,01204440000,20080418100000
  09070000009,JPN,160-0000,type0000007,01204440001,20080418100000
  09070000010,JPN,160-0001,type0000008,01204440000,20080418100000
  

DESCRIPTION

Text::CSV::BulkData is a Perl module which generates csv files with bulk data. You can modify incremented values with using 4 arithmetic operations and residue.

SEE ALSO

None

AUTHOR

Kazuhiro Sera, <webmaster@seratch.ath.cx>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008 by Kazuhiro Sera

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.