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.
> ...