Hello wise Monks,

again I have a question:
I have to convert several CSV files to some kind of XML. The Perl script reads all CSV and builds several lists and hashes.

To sum it up:
There are 1500 messages overall, but the script only works for 1495! The remaining 5 messages aren't properly handled. Why?

In detail:
The CSV lines all look like this

Fehler_SWCA_UgaUgeMSG                   ,M_sw_canInter,506,KL_FAT,BHI,
+AUS_DEFAULT,AKT_NOTAUS,"""MSG Ueberlauf""","""UGA UGE MSG Ueberlauf""
+",""" """
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This is one of those that DON'T work, but I didn't recognize any difference to any other line so far.

The text between the groups of '"""' should show up in the result file as XML element. The structure should look like this:

    <MSG id="E_Fehler_SWCA_UgaUgeMSG">
        <TXT_S>
            <TXT lang="de">"MSG Ueberlauf"</TXT>
        </TXT_S>
        <TXT_L>
            <TXT lang="de">"UGA UGE MSG Ueberlauf"</TXT>
        </TXT_L>
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But it actually does look like that:

    <MSG id="E_Fehler_SWCA_UgaUgeMSG">
        <TXT_S>
        </TXT_S>
        <TXT_L>
        </TXT_L>
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We see that not only the content of the <TXT> elements is missing, but the WHOLE LINE! What's going on there??

I set some kind of debug output in my perl script, which looks like this:

foreach $txt (@{$txtById{$id}})
{
    print OUTFILE "\t\t<TXT_S>\n";
    if ($msg->{id} eq "E_Fehler_SWCA_UgaUgeMSG")  #DEBUG OUTPUT
    {
        print "$msg->{id}\nTXT =\n$txt->{id}\n$txt->{lang}\n$txt->{txt
+S}\n$txt->{txtL}\n";
    }
    print OUTFILE "\t\t\t<TXT lang=\"$txt->{lang}\">\"$txt->{txtS}\"</
+TXT>\n";
    print OUTFILE "\t\t</TXT_S>\n";
    print OUTFILE "\t\t<TXT_L>\n";
    print OUTFILE "\t\t\t<TXT lang=\"$txt->{lang}\">\"$txt->{txtL}\"</
+TXT>\n";
    print OUTFILE "\t\t</TXT_L>\n";
}
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In my shell window I get that output:

E_Fehler_SWCA_UgaUgeMSG
TXT =
E_Fehler_SWCA_UgaUgeMSG
de
MSG Ueberlauf
UGA UGE MSG Ueberlauf
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which is what I expected.
Each field is filled with proper data. It does print on the screen but not in the file, and I don't have any clue. :-(

Thanks in advance for helping,
Faltblatt

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