"perl -e ' $sep=","; while(<>) { s/\Q$sep\E/\t/g; print $_; } warn "Ch
+anged $sep to tab on $. lines\n" ' csvfile.csv > tabfile.tab"

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becomes 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $sep=","; 
open (my $csv_file , "<" , 'csvfile.csv');
open (my $tab_file , ">" , 'tabfile.tab');
while(<$csv_file>) { 
   s/\Q$sep\E/\t/g; 
   print $tab_file, $_;
 } 
warn "Changed $sep to tab on $. lines\n"

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However what do you do with lines such as 
"Monster, The Cookie", "123 Sesame St, TV land"

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When processing CSV's there are all kinds of edge cases, so use a module that has looked at these issues already rather than ending up with unsupportable code, I would suggest Text::CSV.

You can open a new csv object with a different separator and just write it without having to contemplate cases like the above.

print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."

In reply to Re: Convert CSV file to TAB delimited by Utilitarian
in thread Convert CSV file to TAB delimited by TCM

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