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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You could always use Perl – file manipulation is Perl’s bread and butter. Cpan shows over 500 CSV modules (https://metacpan.org/search?q=csv), one of which should do what you need.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> CALUG [mailto:calug-bounces@unknownlamer.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rajiv Gunja<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 28, 2016 10:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> CALUG<br><b>Subject:</b> [CALUG] Reading CSV using Python / PHP<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'>Hey all, I am trying to cut down on the amount of manual steps I have to take editing CSV file - sorting, creating new tabs and categorising them.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'>I googled and found logparser from MS, could not figure it out - maybe a mental block towards anything MS. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'>I saw that it was possible using python or PHP. So turning to you guys for advice. Which one works best or is there a different way?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'>I do not know Python, but I can learn. PHP, I am very familiar with, but whichever is efficient and can do a better job, I will use it.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'>Problem: <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'>1. CSV file has 2000+ rows<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'>2. Some columns are multi-line with \r and \n<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'>3. fields are separated by "," and each data item is between quotes (" ")<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'>Please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#3333FF'>-GG</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>