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Old 01-11-2010
Batch file to remove double quotes from a file
Hi

I have to create a windows batch file which will read an input file and remove "double quotes" from each line of the file.
For eg.If input file name is abcd.csv and contents is :

Code:
"asasd,123123,213213,asd"
"esfrf,dsfsdf,234324,sdfsdf"

Then the batch file should remove "" from the start and end of the line and output file should be:
Code:
asasd,123123,213213,asd
esfrf,dsfsdf,234324,sdfsdf

Plz help
Thanks
# 2  
Old 01-11-2010
sed 's/"//g' filename
# 3  
Old 01-11-2010
I have to use a windows batch file to execute this.
This command is used in Unix I guess..
Thanks
# 4  
Old 01-11-2010
Akashtcs you can even use a unix machine to remove double quotes, first transferring ur file to unix machine then applying above SED command. Then FTP ur csv files to windows machine. Once i needed to substitute "/" with "\\" as windows accept "\\" instead of "/" in property files and i used this method Smilie
# 5  
Old 01-11-2010
Do you have perl in your windows server?

Code:
perl -i.bak -pe 's/"//g' file.bat

# 6  
Old 01-11-2010
No dont have perl in the system,
Also cant do it by transferring the file to unix and doing it...Smilie
There must be something simple in windows to read file line by line and replace a character.
# 7  
Old 01-11-2010
You can download sed for windows and use above mentioned sed command, you can find sed for windows here
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