Trimming trailing double quotes

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Re: Trimming trailing double quotes by mpeters (Chaplain) on Jan 05, 2005 at 19:50 UTC
Do you mean removing paried double quotes from a string? `$line =~ s/"([^"])"/$1/;` [download] Or do you mean removing double quotes from the begining and end of a line? `$line =~ s/^"(.*)"$/$1/;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Trimming trailing double quotes by curtisb (Monk) on Jan 05, 2005 at 19:56 UTC
I was meaning your second statment. That worked fine. However, I'm still ending up with binary garbage in my array. Any advice on that? Thanks, Bobby	[reply]
Re^3: Trimming trailing double quotes by davido (Cardinal) on Jan 05, 2005 at 20:17 UTC
What does "binary garbage" mean? ....remember, garbage in, garbage out. What does the input data look like, and what are you trying to get out of it? Dave	[reply]
Re^3: Trimming trailing double quotes by ambrus (Abbot) on Jan 05, 2005 at 20:35 UTC
What array?	[reply]
Re: Trimming trailing double quotes by DaWolf (Curate) on Jan 05, 2005 at 20:02 UTC
The `^` sign tells the regex to trim only the first chacaracter of a line, as the `$` sign tells to trim the last one. If you want to get rid of all double quotes you should remove it: `$line =~ s/\"//g;` Type perldoc perlre for more information. Regards, Er Galvão Abbott www.galvao.eti.br Porto Alegre Perl Mongers	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Trimming trailing double quotes by perlsen (Chaplain) on Jan 06, 2005 at 07:25 UTC
if you want to trim trailing double quotes u can change your regex as follows `$line=' "the text" i found in "the" "line'; $line =~ s/(\w)"/$1/g; print $line;` [download] output: "the tex i found in "the "line regards, Senthil Kumar.k	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Trimming trailing double quotes by perlsen (Chaplain) on Jan 06, 2005 at 07:35 UTC
sorry the output i was mentioned in previous reply should be "the text i found in "the "line sorry for the previous suggetion of output but regex is correct thanks Senthil Kumar.k	[reply]