I find that for doing multiple edits on a single line on a single pass its best to use awk.

-Jared

On 3/1/06, douglas.r.aker@verizon.com <douglas.r.aker@verizon.com> wrote:

Thanks Jared and Frank for your quick responses.

The solution, it turns out, had nothing to do with RE's, but rather with input lines and files.

I'm dealing with multi-line, comma-separated-value records, using Perl programs to convert them to single line records, change bare carriage-return characters to newline characters and eventually remove extraneous trailing commas, e.g. ...,"Moe, Larry, Curly, ",... (the comma and space after "Curly" is extraneous).  I guess you can only do so much in one pass through an input file.

The solution was to write two Perl programs, and use a two-stage process as in:

cat multi-line-input-records | makethemsinglelines.pl | removetrailingcommas.pl > greatlookingfile.out

Thanks again,
Doug




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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:30:26AM -0500, douglas.r.aker@verizon.com wrote:
> The obvious   s/, "/"/g  doesn't work, nor does escaping the
> double-quotes, as in   s/, \"/\"/g

Try

$target =~ s/,\s\"/\"/g;

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