I have a file which is comma delimited, that needs to
be read into arrays.

This would be easy with 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my $line;

open (FH, "< ./kevtest.dat") || die "Couldn't open ./kevtest.dat: $!";

#Read in all the lines
my @lines = <FH>;
chomp @lines;

for $line (@lines) {
    $line =~ s/\"//g;
   print STDERR "$line\n";
}

#Close the file
close FH  || die "Couldn't ./fred.dat\n";

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However, the file can contain

field 1, "field 2, has a comma", field 3
If I strip `"` then I will get 4 elements in @lines, not 3.

Help pls?

Kev

In reply to Comma Delimited Problems by Kevman

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