I have a set of data where each field is separated by a '|' and the end of record is CRLF or LF. The problem I have run into is that the original application, that I have no control over, allows fields to contain CRLFs or LFs. I thought one approach was to count '|' and validate the number of field per row read in and if there were not enough chomp the CRLF or LF and join the next record to that record. This approach might work but was wondering what other possibilities you someone else may have used to help clean data with this kind of problem. Here is a a sample the data: 
EN|486822|||KKJSKA|L|L00219796|STR, JASON A|JASON|A|STR|||||3710 |NORT
+H CANTON|OH|44720|||000|0003053964|I|||
EN|486823|||YYYYYY|L|L00738657|OCID, SEAN M|SEAN|M|OCID|||||3846 Foxta
+il Lane

|CINCINNATI|OH|45248|||000|0009544289|I|||
EN|486824|||KXXXXP|L||DSBS, ANDREW J|ANDREW|J|DSBS|||||28835 STILXXXXX
+X|FARXXXXX HILLS|MI|48334|||000||I|||

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Thanks for any ideas. Mike

In reply to Clean data - where field contains a CRLF by sxmwb

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