Check whether the newlines in fields are really CRLF ("\r\n"); they could be just "\n", while the record separator is "\r\n". Then you could set $/ = "\r\n" and do a s/\n/<br>/g over the fields.

If that wasn't the case, I'd do something like (untested) 

my $sep = ';'; # field separator
my $expected_field_count = scalar split /$sep/, <>; # header line
while(<>) {
    chomp;
    my @fields = split /$sep/, $_;
    while(@fields < $expected_field_count) {
        my $fieldline = <>;
        my @l = split /$sep/, $_;
        $fields[-1] .= '<br>'. shift @l;
        push(@fields,@l) if @l;
    }
    ...
}

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That works only if your csv has a fixed number of fields. BTW, there are CSV modules out there...

--shmem 

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In reply to Re: Parsing a CSV file in a unique way by shmem
in thread Parsing a CSV file in a unique way by TASdvlper

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