On Monday 15 September 2003 09:57, Richard Sydney-Smith wrote: > I am outputting the following rows from a SYBASE database on W2000
> The problem is that each string is imported with the inverted commas. > > eg field ID = ''RK'' instead of 'RK' > > Can someone please help? A short bit of perl. Something like (untested) perl -pi -e 's/\t"/\t/g' fcont.dat perl -pi -e 's/"\t/\t/g' fcont.dat That should pre-process the file. I'm sure someone else on the list will show how to do it in sed. Hmm - just noticed you are on Windows. Not sure what cygwin ships with, or whether you have perl installed. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match