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Old 07-28-2009
delete first two " char
Hi,

I need to delete the char " from a line but only the first 2

example:

JPY,0,XS0122118481,CCDO,IFI_CCDO,"2,210,000,000","2,210,000,000",0.00

result:

JPY,0,XS0122118481,CCDO,IFI_CCDO,2,210,000,000,"2,210,000,000",0.00

How may I go about doing this?

Thanks
# 2  
Old 07-28-2009
This works but it's fugly. I'm sure someone will come up with something better. Say your lines are in a file called "testfile":

Code:
sed s/\"//1 testfile | sed s/\"//1

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Old 07-28-2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mglenney
This works but it's fugly. I'm sure someone will come up with something better. Say your lines are in a file called "testfile":

Code:
sed s/\"//1 testfile | sed s/\"//1

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