Thanks Rolf!

I believe I was able to make your idea work. I've posted a solution below, feel free to critique if you have the notion.

my $wait_for_odd_quotes = 0;
my $line_accumulator = '';
while(<$CSVFILE>) {
    chomp(my $this_line = $_);

    my @matches = $this_line =~ /(\")/g;
    my $count = @matches;

    if($wait_for_odd_quotes == 0){
        if($count % 2 == 1){
            $line_accumulator = $this_line; #Reset Accumulator
            $wait_for_odd_quotes = 1; #Prime next loop to look for end
+ of quotes
        }
        else {
            print $OUTFILE $this_line . "\n"; #We are not looking for 
+and end quote and this line doesn't have an odd number of quotes so w
+e'll write it to file
        }
    }
    else {
        if($count % 2 == 1){
            $line_accumulator .= $this_line; #matched our open quotes,
+ taking this last bit
            $wait_for_odd_quotes = 0; #reset so next loop knows we're 
+not looking to close
            print $OUTFILE $line_accumulator . "\n"; 
        }
        else {
            $line_accumulator .= ' ' . $this_line;
        }
    }
}
print $OUTFILE $line_accumulator . "\n"; #catch final line if it had e
+mbedded newlines

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In reply to Re^2: Embedded Newlines or Converting One-Liner to Loop by mwb613
in thread Embedded Newlines or Converting One-Liner to Loop by mwb613

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