in reply to Re: File comparison
in thread File comparison

What if one field somewhere has an internal line break?

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Re^3: File comparison
by holli (Abbot) on Nov 01, 2005 at 16:40 UTC
    Then the data is corrupt ;)


    holli, /regexed monk/
      Common tools like Excel, DBD::CSV, and Text::xSV disagree with that prognosis.
Re^3: File comparison
by xspikx (Acolyte) on Nov 01, 2005 at 16:41 UTC
    it won't have one. Before these two files are created, all data is verified, any linebreaks, spaces are removed.