I got

-###.####,##.###,"Doe, John & Jane","### Main St","Town, State 13370",
+,,
-###.####,##.###,"Doe, John","### Main St,"Town, State 13370",,,

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and I'm trying to change them to 

-###.####,##.###,"John & Jane Doe","### Main St","Town, State 13370",,
+,
-###.####,##.###,"John Doe","### Main St","Town, State 13370",,,

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just messing with the name part. I got 

$code =~ s*&*4645654*g;
$code =~ s*.([^&]+?),"([^&]+?), ([^&]+?)","*.$1,"$3 $2","*g;
$code =~ s*.([^&]+?),"([^&]+?), ([^&]+?) 4645654 ([^&]+?)"*.$1,"$3 464
+5654 $4 $2"*g;
$code =~ s*4645654*&*g;

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but it's not even close to doing it right. It for example, moves the last name to right before the town name, replaces part of the street number to a period, and moves the Town name to after the Zip code.

How do you get it to only mess with the 


.NUMBER,"John & Jane Doe","NUMBER
.NUMBER,"Doe, John","NUMBER

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part and change it right!

In reply to Simple search and replace trouble!! by Jesse Smith

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