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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Removing double quotes in a file Post 302269850 by kingofprussia on Thursday 18th of December 2008 08:06:38 PM
Old 12-18-2008
Removing double quotes in a file

Hi All,

I have a tab delimited file where each of the strings have double quotes.

The problem is that I have records which are in the following format:

"TEXAS" ""HOUSTON"" "123" "" "2625-39-39"
""MAINE"" "" "456" "I" "3737-39-82"

I would have to output another tab delimited file in the following fashion with the extra double quotes around the string removed:

"TEXAS" "HOUSTON" "123" "" "2625-39-39"
"MAINE" "" "456" "I" "3737-39-82"

This problem seems to persits across multiple fields and multiple rows.

Thanks for your help!!!
 

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CSV2MIPE(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       CSV2MIPE(1)

NAME
csv2mipe.pl - Generates MIPE file based on 3 tab-delimited files based on MIPE version v1.1 arguments: * tab-delimited file with PCR-level data * tab-delimited file with SNP-level data * tab-delimited file with assay-level data Columns in file with PCR-level data: pcr_id pcr_modified (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";") pcr_project (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";") pcr_researcher (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";") pcr_species source_type source_id design_seq primer1_oligo primer1_seq primer1_tm primer2_oligo primer2_seq primer2_tm design_remark (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";") use_seq use_revcomp use_remark (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";") pcr_remark (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";") Columns in file with SNP-level data: pcr_id snp_id snp_pos snp_amb snp_remark (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";") Columns in file with assay-level data: pcr_id snp_id assay_id assay_type assay_enzyme assay_oligo assay_specific assay_tail assay_strand assay_remark (might be multiple, divided by semi-colon ";") SYNOPSIS
csv2mipe.pl <pcr_file.csv> <snp_file.csv> <assay_file.csv> ADDITIONAL INFO
See http://mipe.sourceforge.net AUTHOR
Jan Aerts (jan.aerts@bbsrc.ac.uk) perl v5.14.2 2005-07-20 CSV2MIPE(1)
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