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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Need help replacing quotes Post 302492939 by jl487 on Wednesday 2nd of February 2011 01:15:57 AM
Old 02-02-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by malcomex999
Try...
Code:
awk -F, -v c=\' '{for(i=0;++i<=NF;){if($i ~ /[0-9]/){gsub(c,x,$i)}}}1' OFS=,

Malcolm, the code you supplied doesn't quite work. I should note that the array is stored as follows:

LI = ['9', '*', '(', '11', '+', '5', ')', '*', '7']

When I try running your command, I get an error saying missing a '(' I checked the parenthesis and they seem to match up.
 

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Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets; my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({ top => 5, bottom => 5, left => 5, right => 5 }); METHODS
Constructor new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets. Instance Methods as_array Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left. bottom Set/Get the inset from the bottom. equal_to Determine if these Insets are equal to another. left Set/Get the inset from the left. right Set/Get the inset from the right. top Set/Get the inset from the top. zero Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0. AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>" SEE ALSO
perl(1) COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)
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