RE: Looking for suggestions - how to sort & merge comma separated quoted string files

2004-11-26 Thread McGlinchy, Alistair
Bill, > The problem is that some of the double-quoted strings contain > newlines. OK, there are a lot of newlines in these quoted > strings - and they have to remain in the data. You could be lucky and get away with setting the record delimiter to be a qw(\"\n). It depends on how well you can t

Looking for suggestions - how to sort & merge comma separated quoted string files

2004-11-24 Thread Kalarness, Bill
Hi, I have three files of data which consists of records of double-quoted strings that are comma separated. The first data "field" for each record contains a unique sequence number. All the records in the files contain the same number of "fields". Step 1: I need to merge two of these files of r