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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to delete the commas in a .CSV file that are enclosed in a string with double quotes? Post 302887899 by dhruuv369 on Tuesday 11th of February 2014 12:36:11 PM

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@Don Cragun: Great explanation, no one could have done it better than this... Thank you so much.

@rk4k: please share your thoughts. Do you mean this approach does not work in all the cases? Because, I find the above code given by in2nix4life works in my case... Please let us know...

@pravin27: thanks for providing a perl code too... however, I assume, it is only substituting the first occurrence of comma and replacing it with a blank space. Your code gives the output as:

Code:

column 1,column 2,column 3,column 4,column 5,column 6,column 7,column 8,column 9,column 10
12310,42324564756,"a simple string with a  comma","string with or without commas",string 1,USD,12,70%,08/01/2013,
23455,12312255564,"string with, multiple, commas","string with or without commas",string 2,USD,433,70%,07/15/2013,
23525,74535243123,"string  with commas, and - hypens and: semicolans","string with or without commas",string 1,CAND,744,70%,05/06/2013,
46476,15467534544,"lengthy string with commas, multiple: colans","string with or without commas",string 2,CAND,388,70%,09/21/2013,

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