I'm trying to export information from an application. It's built-in export function allows for writing a quoted, comma delimited file, but some of the fields are free-form, and contain line breaks (CRLF, since I'm working on WinNT). This means that when I try to read the file with Excel, those records are interpreted as multiple records. I wrote a quick script to strip the line breaks from within the fields, but I'm sure there is a better way to do it. Who wants to show me? 
use strict;

undef $/;
my $infile = (<>);

my @fields = $infile =~ /(".*?"|\n)/gms;

my $place = "\n";
foreach (@fields) {
  if ($place ne "\n" && $_ ne "\n") {print ",";};
  unless ($_ eq "\n") {s/\n//g;};
  print "$_";
  $place = $_;
}

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In reply to CRLF in a csv by geofisch

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