I was given an Access database which I am trying to get into MySQL, I read through the documentation on mysqlimport and it said that it was only capable of importing text files. So I export my Access DB into a pipe delimited file, pipes delimiting the fields, and newlines delimiting the records. Well, to make a long story short, M$ Access's Export feature sucks, many of my rows were divided on whitespaces which resulted single lines looking like the following

3884|MC1|GW|Graphworks/Mirandas Needle|kit
|Mice Skating|EACH|$1.50|$0.75|MC1.JPG
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My question is, how do I remove the newline '\n' on a line if the next line doesn't start with a 3-5 digit number and then print that new complete line to a seperate file?

This is what I have so far, and it doesn't work.

open (PROD,"<products.txt");
open (OUT,">out.txt");
@array = <PROD>;
foreach $line (@array){
unless ($line =~/JPG?/){ chomp; }
print OUT "$line"; }
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any help would be appreciated.

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