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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing line breaks inside a field Post 303001309 by RudiC on Tuesday 1st of August 2017 01:10:09 PM
Old 08-01-2017
Please become accustomed to provide decent context info of your problem.
It is always helpful to support a request with system info like OS and shell, related environment (variables, options), preferred tools, adequate (representative) sample input and desired output data and the logics connecting the two, and, if existent, system (error) messages verbatim, to avoid ambiguities and keep people from guessing.

This is one of the prevalent problems in these fora - did you try searching for solutions? One approach would be to read / append lines until the field count is correct.
 

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SPLFILEOBJECT.FPUTCSV(3)						 1						  SPLFILEOBJECT.FPUTCSV(3)

SplFileObject::fputcsv - Write a field array as a CSV line

SYNOPSIS
public int SplFileObject::fputcsv (array $fields, [string $delimiter = ","], [string $enclosure = '"'], [string $escape = " DESCRIPTION
Writes the $fields array to the file as a CSV line. PARAMETERS
o $fields - An array of values. o $delimiter - The optional $delimiter parameter sets the field delimiter (one character only). o $enclosure - The optional $enclosure parameter sets the field enclosure (one character only). o $escape - The optional $escape parameter sets the escape character (one character only). RETURN VALUES
Returns the length of the written string or FALSE on failure. Returns FALSE, and does not write the CSV line to the file, if the $delimiter or $enclosure parameter is not a single character. ERRORS
/EXCEPTIONS An E_WARNING level error is issued if the $delimiter or $enclosure parameter is not a single character. CHANGELOG
+--------------+-------------------------------+ | Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------------+-------------------------------+ |5.5.21, 5.6.5 | | | | | | | Added the $escape parameter. | | | | +--------------+-------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 SplFileObject::fputcsv example <?php $list = array ( array('aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc', 'dddd'), array('123', '456', '789'), array('"aaa"', '"bbb"') ); $file = new SplFileObject('file.csv', 'w'); foreach ($list as $fields) { $file->fputcsv($fields); } ?> The above example will write the following to file.csv: aaa,bbb,ccc,dddd 123,456,789 """aaa""","""bbb""" SEE ALSO
fputcsv(3), SplFileObject::fgetcsv. PHP Documentation Group SPLFILEOBJECT.FPUTCSV(3)
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