Import/Export Record Separator?

[Choice One]

Can someone help me to specify a proper Record Separator. I'm trying
to create an import application in Linux from a CSV exported file. The
normal record separator is the carriage return. However, there are carriage
returns in the contact's note field that confuses my application.

Can someone advise me how this has been overcome?

I notice that I can easily import the CSV file into Excel. How does
Excel know where the record ends. How does it know the ENTER's included in
the notes fields (which I have many notes in my contact records) are not
record separators?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or comments.


-- L. James