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Follow up:

Think I have managed to sort out what I want with only a minor modification to user "jim mcnamara" solution:

I used nawk and put </description> as the record delimiter instead of ,
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Thanks a lot for your help.

I should have said in my initial post that there may be text in between the double quotes which themselves are in double quotes and may contain commas,

e.g....

Hi,

I have a comma delimited text file where character fields (as opposed to numeric and date fields) are always enclosed with double quotes. Records are separated by the newline character. In a...