Re: Escaping with tr



Bernard van de Koppel said:
> Hi,
>
> How can I get all the " characters out of a csv file.
>
> Input looks like
> "bla bla";"bla bla";"bla bla"
>
> and it has to look like
> bla bla;bla bla; bla bla
>
> I tried $text=~ tr(#\"##);
> but perl keeps complaining about "Might be a runaway multi-line ;;"
starting on the line with tr.

Try to use $text=~s/"//g;

--
Scott

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