That is indeed a good point++!

In Excel, there is some kind of formatting option to wrap a line onto another line depending upon the column width. There may be some kind of option to insert a GUI line break that doesn't appear in the CSV (maybe CTL-Enter)? Not sure that is possible.

However, you are quite correct in that multiple lines within a column is something to be considered -- think about a single field for an address instead of multiple columns for each line of the address.

All of the CSV files that I currently work with containing addresses are | delimited, have separate columns for each potential line of the address and disallow the | char within an address. So a bit of tunnel vision on my part! Sorry!

You are quite correct to point out this possibility.

BTW: I've seen CSV files with 512 or 1024 fields. These things can have humongous line lengths. Perl is very good at getting me the dozen or so fields that I care about.

In reply to Re^3: Complex file manipulation challenge by Marshall
in thread Complex file manipulation challenge by jdporter

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