Re: Replace comma with tab

It works for me (with or without the "g", which replaces "globally")

>echo this, that, and the other | perl -pe 's/,/\t/g' 
this     that     and the other
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"does not work" is not a specific enough description.

It would help if you showed what you expect it to do, and what it actually produces for you, as well as a sample of the input data.

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Re^2: Replace comma with tab by zaqwsxcde (Initiate) on Apr 05, 2015 at 15:15 UTC
it worked finally. After adding the "g" at the end of the command, it worked properly. I am still curious, why did it work fine without "g" for the previous task (converting ".." to ","), and did not work for converting "," to tab?	[reply]
Re^3: Replace comma with tab by Laurent_R (Canon) on Apr 05, 2015 at 17:15 UTC
We could probably explain if you showed us your data. Perhaps you had only one occurrence of double dots per line of input. Maybe something else, I can't say for sure, we need to see the data. Je suis Charlie.	[reply]