Hi Monks,

I am having problems reading a file that I have processed.

I am trying to remove the return characters in the lines of a file.

Input is 

"data", "data" ,"data", "data","data", "data"
"data", "data" ,"data", "data
with new line
","data", "data"
"data", "data" ,"data", "data","data", "data"

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The code that I am using is: 

open (OUTFILE, '> '.$ARGV[1].'temp.csv')or die $!;
open (INFILE, $ARGV[0])  or die $!;
while (<INFILE>)
{
    chomp;
    if($_ !~ /"$/){
        $_=~ s/[\n\r]//g;
        while($_ !~/"$/){
            $test = <INFILE>;
            $test =~ s/[\n\r]//g;
            $_ = $_." ".$test;
        }
        $_ = $_."\n";
        }
    print     OUTFILE $_;
    }
}
close (INFILE);     
close (OUTFILE); 
exit;

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The problem is that after I have created the file, It only reads the lines that have been processed by the if statement.

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