Hi all, I have some csv files where the line breaks got lost, so the file comes as one long line.

For example (this one has 6 columns):

"Business Date","Location Name","Revenue Center Name","Tender Count","
+Tender Name","Tender Total" 2007-05-14 00:00:00.0,"Aville","x",300,"b
+",6899 2007-05-14 00:00:00.0,"Aville","x",6,"c",198.50 2007-05-14 00:
+00:00.0,"Aville","b",290,"Cash",12336.10 2007-05-14 00:00:00.0,"Bvill
+e","c",14,"d",958.40

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I want to split this file into lines, and then I can process the lines using the normal csv handling stuff (split or Text::CSV).

The question is - what is the slick Perl Way to split this into lines? Some files have 6 columns, others have 10 or 14 .

Please help
reinier

In reply to splitting cvs file without line breaks by rendier

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