Exporting Multiple Select Options with Freeform

How can the “line break” be filtered that Freeform puts between multiple select options? Because it does that, the otherwise nicely tab delimited text file cannot be easily imported into a spreadsheet or database. The selected options are scattered and the columns broken up.

In the ee Freeform module “entries” view, the multiple options are in their correct column, but on separate lines. If I manually edit in the “entries” view by using the space bar between the options to change the invisible break to a space, then they export into Excel in their appropriate column. Otherwise, not!

I tried using html_strip in the freeform header with no luck. ………………………….

Amazing. This keeps happening to me. As soon as I post my question, the answer pops almost out of thin air. It’s great. I found what I needed in the Solspace Forum:

A small hack – changing line 862 (as of version 2.7.1 or .2) of mod.freeform.php:

“$val = implode( “\n”, $val );”

to:

“val = implode( “, “, $val );”

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So once again, no further help needed right now!