Wiggins d'Anconia said: > Scott Taylor wrote: I did not.
>>>Hi, >>> >>>How can I get all the " characters out of a csv file. >>> >>>Input looks like >>>"bla bla";"bla bla";"bla bla" >>> >>>and it has to look like >>>bla bla;bla bla; bla bla >>> >>>I tried $text=~ tr(#\"##); >>>but perl keeps complaining about "Might be a runaway multi-line ;;" >> >> > > On a more serious note. Simply removing *all* double quotes can be a > dangerous proposition unless your data really does look like "bla bla" > which I somewhat doubt. Usually a delimited file like this will quote > specific fields because they may contain the delimiter, in this case a > semi-colon. Are you sure "bla bla" can't be "blah; blah blah", and then > in the future need to still be delimited by the semi-colon? > > Just checking... It is not uncommon to find CSV output in the format he describes. Often I need to remove all the quotes out of simple data streams like that. -- Scott -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
