I am having importing a CSV file using into MySQL. I'm hoping perl can help me resolve this by either reformatting the CSV file or doing some other magic. The file contains memo fields which terminate several lines, but are part of the same record. ex.

ID,Name,Memo
"1","John Smith","Memo Line1
Memo Line2
Memo Line3"
"2","Jane Doe","Memo Line1
Memo Line2
Memo Line3"

There are also cases where there are null fields represented as:

ID,Name,Number,Address,Memo
"1","Jane Smith","","","Memo1
Memo2"

I've tried using sed to do this, but it seems to get confused when it comes across some of the null fields i.e.
""

Basically, I'd like to reformat in a way that I can terminate each record with a set of characters, something like:

ID,Name,MemoEOL
"1","John Smith","Memo Line1
Memo Line2
Memo Line3"EOL
"2","Jane Doe","Memo Line1
Memo Line2
Memo Line3"EOL


Any help will be greatfully appreciated. And anyone who gets me a good answer might get something from their CDNOW wishlist! :)

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