I have an Excel file that will have data in 5 rows. Some cells have data in multiple lines (using alt-enter).
When going through this data column by column I have a problem where the carriage returns are automatically being processed by Perl so the processing I am attempting on the data is not being done completely. Is there a way of getting rid of these carriage returns?

Here is an example of the test data:
______________________________________________
 |    A   |    B   |    C   |    D   |    E   |
-|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
 | Cell 1 | Cell 2 | Cell 3 | Cell 6 | Cell 7 |
1|        |        | Cell 4 |        |        |
 |        |        |        |        |        |
 |        |        | Cell 5 |        |        |
_|________|________|________|________|________|

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And here is the output I get when I read in that column of data:

cell 1,cell 2,cell 3
cell 4

cell 5,Cell 6,cell 7

So as you can see the carriage returns are being processed by Perl and this is messing up the rest of my functionality. I need to somehow get the script to disregard them. I would like to have all cells of data in the column be outputted to a single line so the rest of my script can process correctly. Any thoughts?

In reply to Carriage returns in Excel files by Anonymous Monk

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