Hello Guys, I am trying to parse a file that contains a database record on each line. Format is like this: "a,"b","c","d" the problem is that on a couple of records, the last value of the string ("d") contains multiple lines of text.It looks like this: 
 "a,"b","c","d
"ddd"
"ddd"
"\n"

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Im using split, and it stops at the end of the first line. This is assigning the trailing "d" information to the following "a" which isn't good. I know I need some kind of if statement, but Im not versed well enough in perl to figure it out. Can anyone help? Thanks Steve

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