Importing CSV that has line breaks within the actual fields

Question

I am using PHP to import a CSV file, which originates from an excel spreadsheet. Some of the fields contain line breaks in them, so when I reopen the csv in excel / open office

Answer 1

The accepted answer didn't solve the problem for me, but I eventually found this CSV parser library on google code that works well for multiline fields in CSV's.

parsecsv-for-php:
https://github.com/parsecsv/parsecsv-for-php

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For historical purposes, the original project home was:
http://code.google.com/p/parsecsv-for-php/