I actually agree with you surprise. But mabe you did'nt read the question properly. I was not able to install them!! My suggestion is stop looking at this question like a csv problem. all i need to know is how to do s sub function in the middle of a regex.

example : 

s/
"(.*)"       #search for something that is enclosed by quotes.
/
Now take $1 and run a sub search replace on it.
/e;

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What is so bad about doing this? I already know that if i have a quoted data in my file then it is bound to have a comma in there!. Now i'll say this, if i cant do it this way then i would have to wait for our sysadmin to come back and install the relevant modules.

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