Hi,

I'm asking again for your help.
I know the title seems quite obvious but it is something I was not able to do.
Here is my input file :
a b « x1 x2 »
c d « x2 »
e f « x3 x4 x5 »

And I want it to become :
a b « x1,x2 »
c d « x2 »
e f « x3,x4,x5 »

In other words, I want to substitute all <tabs/space> in the field that starts and ends with <double quotes> by <commas>.
The number of fields between quotes can be of any value (practically it will never be greater than 6 or 7 but I'd like something generic).
And I want to do this (if possible) on a unix command line ie :
perl -pe 's/.../g' < input_file > output_file.

Do you know how to achieve this ?

Regards.

Xuo.

In reply to How to substitute all tabs only in a specific field by xuo

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