in reply to deleting commas enclosed by quotation marks
$string = '7374,726327,"76,237",32324,"21,342,857",23'; $string =~ s/("[^"]+")/my $tmp = $1; $tmp =~ s!,!!g; $tmp/eg; print $string; [download]
7374,726327,"76237",32324,"21342857",23 [download]