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gokavar New User Jan 30, 2003, 8:10 AM Post #1 of 4 (1397 views) File Splitting Can't Post Hi, I am having a csv file with 5 columns.One of the column is a description of length 50characters and may have any characters like comma or hypen as part of the description. I am using comma as the delimiter to split the file to do the validations as the columns may not be of fixed length. But if the description has a comma , it is being split in to two sample data looks like this... C5,L10,ACTB,"OldACTB-MultisDecile1,2""", gokavars C5,L05,ACTM,New LTV/ACTB - Manhattan , gokavars N4,L52,ACTB,ACTB - 3X+ MULTIS DECILE 4 ,gokavars After running my program my data looks like this C5 | L10 |ACTB |"OldACTB-MultisDecile1| 2""" C5 | L05 | ACTM | New LTV/ACTB - Manhattan | gokavars N4 |L52 |ACTB | ACTB - 3X+ MULTIS DECILE 4 |gokavars Is there anyway I can make the first row look like C5 | L10 |ACTB |"OldACTB-MultisDecile1 2""" | gokavars

Melvosh User Jan 30, 2003, 9:47 AM Post #2 of 4 (1393 views) Re: [gokavar] File Splitting [In reply to] Can't Post Your best bet would be to pick a delimiter that is unlikely to show up in any of your data, such as a pipe | or a carat ^. Perhaps even use a double character for a delimiter || or ^^. "...there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for." - Samwise Gamgee, The Two Towers

gokavar New User Jan 30, 2003, 11:41 AM Post #3 of 4 (1387 views) Re: [Melvosh] File Splitting [In reply to] Can't Post This is a specific requirement for me where I have to use a comma delimited file. I figured out something called quotewords function,but it is returning some error.. here is the piece of the code.. open(f1, "<$infile") || die "Can't open $infile $!" ; #--f1 is input data file local @newarr=<f1>; @newarr1=&quotewords(",",0,@newarr); here am getting an error as " Unmatched quote".. Any idea

davorg Thaumaturge Feb 3, 2003, 1:54 AM Post #4 of 4 (1373 views) Re: [gokavar] File Splitting [In reply to] Can't Post The Text::ParseWords module (that comes with the standard Perl distribution) can be used to process CSV files with embedded commas. If your requirements get any more complex then you should look at the Text::CSV module from CPAN. -- Dave Cross, Perl Hacker, Trainer and Writer http://www.dave.org.uk/ Get more help at Perl Monks

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