> Don't know if it helps, but I seem to have installed
> Text::CSV_XS on Activestate 5.14.1 build 1401.
I'm on Perl 5.8.8 because my Perl DevKit only works on that version.
Barry Brevik
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> $csvLine =~ s/(".+?),(.+?")/$1|$2/g;
For some reason this substitution does not seem to work all the time,
depending on which fields have commas in them.
I finally tinkered my way into this:
$csvLine =~ s/("[^",]+?),([^",]+?")/$1|$2/g;
...which seems to work a little better, but will not dea
> -Original Message-
> From: perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com [mailto:perl-
> win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com] On Behalf Of Barry Brevik
> Sent: 17 November 2011 17:29
> To: perl Win32-users
> Subject: Re:Problem with regex
>
> ...
>
> Nevertheless let me also try to explain the issue that you had with
> the regex as this can come up in other situations.
>
> First, I'd probably use plain " instead of \x22 as that will be
> probably easier to the reader to know what are you looking for.
Wow. That is an incredible post.
Yes,
Hi Barry,
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:34 AM, Barry Brevik wrote:
> Below is some test code that will be used in a larger program.
>
> In the code below I have a regular expression who's intent is to look
> for " <1 or more characters> , <1 or more characters> " and replace
> the comma with |. (
