I'm not sure how many monks use perl on Win32, but I am
trying to convert data from an Access database to
something that can be used by MySQL on a Linux machine.
The problem I have is that I can't export the data
directly to a CSV because there are carriage returns,
and or line feeds in the data in one of the columns. So I
am using perl to read the data into memory from the
Access database (ODBC) and strip out all of the
offending characters that break the CSV output. Then I
plan to update that column in each record with the
changed data. I am, however, having a terrible time
getting it to work. I'm not sure if it's my perl code or
some other problem.

Here is what I am doing:

while( my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array() )
{
    my $descriz = $row[1];   # IDTitolo
    my $title_id = $row[0];  # Descriz

    $descriz =~ s/\^M//g;
    $descriz =~ s/\n//g;
    $descriz =~ s/^\s+//g;
    $descriz =~ s/\s+$//g;
        print $descriz, "\n";

#    $dbh->do( "UPDATE Titoli SET Descriz = '$descriz' WHERE IDTitolo 
+= '$title_id'" );
}

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For some reason the information on the first line of the
data from the Descriz field gets completely truncated.
Here is what a sample record (the Descriz column) looks like.

RATED R  

In yet another bid to shed her girl-next-door image, Sandra 
Bullock tackles a difficult role in this riveting 
psychological thriller directed by Barbet Schroeder 
(Single White Female), and under his guidance...<truncated 
for brevity>.

Notice specifically the line breaks. This is what seems
to be giving me trouble. But, like I said, after I've
run it through my substitutions, The first line "RATED
R" is gone completely.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

-Matt

In reply to Perl with MS Access Weirdness by mlong

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