Re: splitting cvs file without line breaks

rendier,
Why can't you still use one of the CSV modules? My experience with Text::CSV for instance tells me you can read the one long line into an @fields array and then process @fields in groups of N. Of course, you will want to write the file back out correctly so that you only have to go through this exercise once.

Cheers - L~R

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Re^2: splitting cvs file without line breaks by shmem (Chancellor) on May 15, 2007 at 16:35 UTC
Hmm... based on the sample input "Tender Total" 2007-05-14 00:00:00.0 would make up just one field? And that's where the line break was.. --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply]
Re^3: splitting cvs file without line breaks by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on May 15, 2007 at 17:09 UTC
shmem, You are correct and I was wrong. I had incorrectly assumed that the line endings had been replaced with the CSV delimeter. The process I outlined could still work but it would be more cumbersome (splitting Nth fields). Cheers - L~R	[reply]