#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; $/ = "FDJK"; # sets end on input line to nonsence my $data = ; print "$data\n\n"; $data =~ s/([^"])\n/$1 /msxg; $data =~ s/(\w) "/$1"/; print $data; __END__ "data","data","data", "data" "data","data with new line " "data" "data","data,"data","data"