ramlight,

Thanks for your post! I'm having the best success with your suggestion, some others caused perl to crash. :(

I pasted the snippet into my script ... 

# while not eof
# =============
while ($line = <INPUT>) {

($date, $time, $ampm, $filesize, $filename) = split(" ", $line);

# remove commas from $filesize string
# ===================================
$filesize =~ s/,//;

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and it successfully removed the first comma. (below)

Results from gnome-terminal: 

1572,727,014    IN11-135.E01
1223    IN11-135.E01.txt
1572,694,696    IN11-135.E02
1572,740,428    IN11-135.E03
1572,785,002    IN11-135.E04
1572,696,748    IN11-135.E05
1572,745,871    IN11-135.E06
1572,737,726    IN11-135.E07
1572,785,459    IN11-135.E08
1572,777,135    IN11-135.E09
1572,751,922    IN11-135.E10
1572,684,462    IN11-135.E11
1556,456,660    IN11-135.E12

Total Files: 13  Avg Size: 0

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The first comma was removed from each number. Now I'm off to perldoc.perl.org to see how I can remove the remaining commas.

Thanks ... Allen.

In reply to Re^2: How to Remove Commas ? by allendevans
in thread How to Remove Commas ? by allendevans

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