Short, fun, programming gig

Short and sweet: A friend who designs websites, but doesn't code needed help with a simple but non-working script to import CSV data into a MySQL database and automate the import.

It's in Perl! Ohhh, my favorite. About an hour and a half and all is working fine, even though the hosting server doesn't allow shell logins and you have to use a time-sinking control panel.

I have to say, the quality of the Perl scripts that folks are apparently actually using on operational websites is nothing less than appalling. No strictures? Simple but wrong regular expressions for parsing CSV?