in reply to data parsing

Can you have data like this?

COLUMN_C: "something","something,with a comma", "other stuff"

Or like this?

COLUMN_C: "something","something\"with a quote", "other stuff"

If so, I recommend that you use a CSV parsing module.

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Re^2: data parsing
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jul 22, 2004 at 08:34 UTC

    Text::ParseWords handles both of those possibilities without any problems - and it's a standard part of the Perl distribution.

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