Hi, I would like to scan through a file and replace any comma ',' within " " to pipe '|', but when the input string contains '$' or '(' or ')', my script doesn't work as expected. Appreciate for any help please...Thanks. 

Sample input records:
ONE,"TWo,2",Three,Four,Five
ONE,"$TWo,2",Three,Four,Five
ONE,"$TWo2","Three,(3)",Four,Five
ONE,"$TWo2","Three,(3",Four,Five

Expected output records:
ONE,"TWo|2",Three,Four,Five
ONE,"$TWo|2",Three,Four,Five
ONE,"$TWo2","Three|(3)",Four,Five
ONE,"$TWo2","Three|(3",Four,Five

Current output:
ONE,"TWo|2",Three,Four,Five --> ok, converted
ONE,"$TWo,2",Three,Four,Five --> wrong, not converted
ONE,"$TWo2","Three,(3)",Four,Five  --> wrong, not converted

Got error for record 4:
Unmatched ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/"Three,( <-- HERE 3"/ at
+ PerlComma.pl line 20, <> line 4


#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $line;
my @matchlist;
my $rplstr;

while (<>) {
    $line=$_;
    @matchlist = $line =~ m/("[^"]*")/g;

    for my $matchstr (@matchlist) {
       $rplstr=$matchstr;
       $rplstr  =~  tr/[,]/[|]/;
       s:$matchstr:$rplstr:g
   }

    print;
}

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