I have a file where each row is 1 record with about 65 columns of information. I need to test some of these columns for specific ranges of values. So I naturally want to use split like this: 
 my (@Cols) = split (",", $lRow);

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Here is the problem: many of the rows have free-text comment blocks with commas that are delimited by double-quotes like this: 
1123,,,"10.11.12.13",4,"I really, really wanted",,,"It was, like great
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1123,,,"34.123.12.12",8,"Fantastic",,,"",,

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How do I remove all commas if they are between ," and ", bracketing pairs?

Note: I dont have to preserve the free-text comments. Is there a regrex to detect & replace everything between: ," and ", if there is a comma with ,"",? The problem is: things like IP addresses and email address are also enclosed in " characters and I need to preserve them. Another problem, some people put multiple comma's in their comments like: "It was ,,,,, the worst experience of my life"

Note: I can make multiple passes through the row so I have thought about replacing all ," combinations with ,| combinations and all ", combinations with |, then replacing everything between two || chars with "".

In reply to Need help parsing comma-delimited file by FatDog

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