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Old 08-22-2014
@Scrutinizer
Updated my post.

PS your does not handle this:
Code:
|ABCD|EFGH|IJKL|MNOP
ABCD|EF\|GH|IJKL|

# 9  
Old 08-22-2014
@ Jotne, correct, I added a remark that my suggestion expects a leading |, like with my shell suggestion. The first is not really a field, otherwise I would expect the output to be:
Code:
""|"ABCD"|"EFGH"|"IJKL"|"MNOP"
""|"ABCD"|"EF|GH"|"IJKL"|"MNOP"

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