> I've been spending far too much time trying to
accomplish a (seemingly) 

> simple thing: use a Perl substitution operation to replace, a comma

> followed by a space followed by a single double-quote with a single

> double-quote.

Octal escapes are one way:

     perl -pe 's/, \042/\042/g'

See the ASCII(7) man page for octal and hex codes.

--Andre

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