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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need Help to delete carriage return and new line in csv file Post 302942973 by mlavanya on Monday 4th of May 2015 11:51:59 AM
Old 05-04-2015
Hi Scrutinizer,

The data which i have posted is actually a single row with 13 columns separated with pipe symbol(|)

I need the data with in double quotes to be considered as single column.
that is from Order raised to 12345 567898
As of now i see that line "Order raised to credit back overpayment against order1233/12345" is treated as 1 column and "Hi Abcd
Could you please arrange credit for the above as follows £123
The wrong quote was uploaded against this job but the correct works have been carried out. If you need paperwork to confirm let me know and I will forward it on to you
Many thanks
Kind Regards,
Abcdedfg
Admin & Invoicing Team Member
12345 567898Hi Abcd
Could you please arrange credit for the above as follows £123
The wrong quote was uploaded against this job but the correct works have been carried out. If you need paperwork to confirm let me know and I will forward it on to you
Many thanks
Kind Regards,
Abcdedfg
Admin & Invoicing Team Member
12345 567898"|ABCDEFGH|16/12/2014|1234|ABCD1010 is treated as next line

Input :
12345|477.5|C|123/1234|12345678|1234|1234/1234567|Emergency Lighting|"Order raised to credit back overpayment against order1233/12345. Hi Abcd Could you please arrange credit for the above as follows £123 The wrong quote was uploaded against this job but the correct works have been carried out. If you need paperwork to confirm let me know and I will forward it on to you Many thanks Kind Regards, Abcdedfg Admin & Invoicing Team Member 12345 567898"|ABCDEFGH|16/12/2014|1234|ABCD1010


Desired output:
12345|477.5|C|123/1234|12345678|1234|1234/1234567|Emergency Lighting|"Order raised to credit back overpayment against order1233/12345.Hi Abcd Could you please arrange credit for the above as follows £123 The wrong quote was uploaded against this job but the correct works have been carried out. If you need paperwork to confirm let me know and I will forward it on to you Many thanks Kind Regards, Abcdedfg Admin & Invoicing Team Member 12345 567898"|ABCDEFGH|16/12/2014|1234|ABCD1010



Please let me know if this is clear. Else please do let me know ..

Regards,
Lavanya.

---------- Post updated at 09:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:19 PM ----------

Hi Rudic ,

Will try the same,

Thanks for your reply..

Regards,
Lavanya.
 

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