Should we hire someone who writes C in Perl? [closed]

Answer 1

His code is a little verbose. Perl is all about modules, and avoiding them makes your life hard. Here is an equivalent to what you posted that I wrote in about two minutes:

 #!/usr/bin/env perl

 use strict;
 use warnings;

 use Text::CSV;

 my $parser = Text::CSV->new({
     allow_whitespace   => 1,
     escape_char        => '\\',
     allow_loose_quotes => 1,
 });

 while(my $line = <>){
     $parser->parse($line) or die "Parse error: ". $parser->error_diag;
     my @row = $parser->fields;
     print $line;
     print "\t[$_]\n" for @row;
 }