Scripting question, new problem

[ms]

On 11/12/10 02:44, Patton Echols wrote:
> I'm still working on my script to import data into gmail from a
> proprietary database.  Most is working ok.  The work flow is to export
> from the database to a csv flat file, then run the script to extract the
> data and reformat to a new CSV that gmail can swallow.  (An absurd
> amount of googling spent on that!)
>
> Current problem is the export a subset of the database records have, for
> "street address" a two line entry like this:
>
> 123 main street
> Apartment A
>
> When that is exported, it adds a carriage return to the CSV file.
>
> What I'd like to do is have the script walk through the file, and if
> there is a line without 13 fields, combine it with the next line.
>
> Since all the date is strings, and quoted, the alternative would be to
> find a line that does not start with a literal  " and  "backspace" once.
>
> Can anyone suggest where to start?
>
> (By the way, yes I could manually fix the file.  But the intention is to
> make this a process that can be repeated weekly, sort of like a one way
> sync.)

In Python is trivial -and surely it is also in Perl or Ruby. In what 
language are you doing the script?
Perhaps better to ask to the language mailing list.

cheers,
m.

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