Hello gnielson,
Once you wrote about "Script to convert pipe delimited to comma delimited":
>
> Would anyone mind sharing a script if they have one on converting pipe
> delimited ascii data files to comma delimited as in:
>
> from Gary|Gary|Address|City|State
> to "Gary","Gary","Address","City","State"
>
> I could use a simple perl command to change every pipe to "," but that
> does not take care of the beginning and ending of each line. Any help,
> advice, pointers appreciated.
Just read the file like this:
open (DATAFILE, "path/to/my/file");
@lines=<DATAFILE>;
close (DATAFILE);
Then work with each line as you planned before ;-)
foreach $line (@lines) {
...
dosomething_here;
...
}
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