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Old 09-14-2012
Stripping double quotes from front and end of a line

I have a file and some records may contain double quotes at beginning and at end of line. So how do I strip them?

For Example, file is somethings like this

Code:
Field1;Field2;Field3
01;'Test';'Test Field3'
"01;'This is 2nd field';This is 3rd field' "

Desired Output is:

Code:
Field1;Field2;Field3
01;'Test';'Test Field3'
01;'This is 2nd field';This is 3rd field'

Thanks

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 09-14-2012 at 08:21 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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