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Matching a quotation in the beginning of a field
I am working with windows, so that may be why '/^"/' isn't matching anything. I'll have to try a workaround. Thank you for the input, though. -
Matching a quotation in the beginning of a field
I need to print every record whose first field begins with a double quotation. I began by trying to set my Record Separator as any word with a quotation in it. (since quotes appear later in the record also) I can't seem to match the quotation in the $1. The text looks like this: Wards...
