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Why does globally replacing spaces give me the letter "s" instead?
Awesome, thanks! That explains it :) Appreciate your help. Zistrosk -
Why does globally replacing spaces give me the letter "s" instead?
Hi everyone, I'm running the latest Strawberry Perl, and needed to take a string with multiple spaces and compress them down so there would only be one space in place of many in a row. Seemed simple to me, I'd just go change all occurrences of two consecutive spaces to a single space, in a... -
Perl - parsing Windows CSV files with embedded quoted CR+LF, CR, or LF
Thank you all for your suggestions. my attempts to use: use Text::CSV; use Text::CSV_PP; use Text::CSV__PP; all end in failure. I did try them one at a time, of course. The system cannot find them. This is both Perl 5.8.4 for Solaris 10u6, and the latest package of Strawberry Perl under... -
Perl - parsing Windows CSV files with embedded quoted CR+LF, CR, or LF
Yes. Text::CSV didn't come with Strawberry Perl, and is not present on the Solaris systems that I also work with. While I could add it to my own personal copy of Strawberry Perl, there's no way I'd be able to put it on the several thousand servers I manage, and I wanted to make sure that the... -
Perl - parsing Windows CSV files with embedded quoted CR+LF, CR, or LF
Hi everyone, I searched the forums (and the internet) and didn't find a solution for my problem, which was how to read and manage CSV data where some of the columns are quote-encapsulated and also have one or more CR, LF, or CR+LF within the quotes. When the CSV is opened in M$ Excel, you end...
