I'll throw in. If tab delimited is available, perhaps that option will work better...or.. use Access to find the violations of the quote comma delimited assumptions, then export from Access an import
Bret On Wed, 2017-03-08 at 08:36 -0800, Karl Czajkowski wrote: > I believe that in its fully glory, you cannot reliably locate CSV > record boundaries except by parsing each field in order including > quote processing. Individual records may have arbitrary numbers of > field and record separator characters within the values. > > Karl > > > On Mar 08, Rob Sargent modulated: > > Since bash has been bandied about in this thread I presume awk is > > available. Here's how I would check just how 'csv'ish the incoming > > file is. > > ... > >