Hi

I have a CSV in which i need to replace the delimiters. I need to change from comma to pipe (|). I know it shouldnt be challenging but i cant seem to twig it. The header fields should be changed to pipe seperated as well.

I have tried:

while ($line = <INPUT>){
         $line =~ s/,/|/g unless ($line =~ /,\"(.*),(.*)\",/);
}

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So essentially substitute all commas for pipes except quoted strings. I know its something like this, but cant quite get it ...

The upshot of this is that each line (as a pipe separated string) is going to get inserted into Oracle as a CLOB.

Any help appreciated

Thanks -- Joe

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In reply to Replacing commas with pipes by joec_

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