decided to get the kixstrip and test.
running without switches worked (wrong warnings though)

running with:
C:\>kixstrip410.exe test.txt testout.txt /show_errors

test.txt being:
quote:
$val="
1. me
2. you
3. he
"
$val
and got:
quote:

;Warning KIXSTRIP: 1, 5 line incomplete "double quotation".
;Warning KIXSTRIP: 1, 5 line incompleted.
so, we come back to the fact that kixstrip is not as free in syntax as kix is.

sure, it reduces the code need a lot to assume things to be on one line but, after combine of the script it will do totally different output in current example.
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