Re^3: Need help with replace or substitute

Or with one line of regex code:

$string =~ s/("[^"]*")/local $_=$1; s!,!#!g; $_ /ge;
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Yes it won't handle escaped double quotes but if you don't have that edge case it will never matter.

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Re^4: Need help with replace or substitute by Anonymous Monk on Apr 13, 2008 at 10:20 UTC
the output with ur regex coming in this code snip as: "the, sample, string",345,43","A, next , string",12,-90 "the# sample# string",345,43"#"A, next , string",12,-90	[reply]
Re^5: Need help with replace or substitute by tachyon-II (Chaplain) on Apr 13, 2008 at 10:29 UTC
That's because your quoting is invalid.	[reply]
Re^4: Need help with replace or substitute by Anonymous Monk on Apr 13, 2008 at 10:23 UTC
thanks this is much appreciated as we can't use any extra CPAN modules other than which are installed there due to some policy voilation.	[reply]