<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Unless you have a magical way to escape the comma inside the quoted string, you're stuck. sed 's/\(".\+\),\(.\+"\)/\1\\,\2/g' file. Assuming all intermediate strings will be double quoted.<br>
<br></div>Might try splitting to an array instead of individual string vars. Then you can do a length test to see if you got something "extra".<br>@strings = split(',' , $String);<br><br></div><div>Be sure to empty the array after each run or loop it as a local variable created each pass.<br>
</div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Robert L. Harris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert.l.harris@gmail.com" target="_blank">robert.l.harris@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div>*Sorry for the OT but my only perl lists have gone dark a long time ago*<div><br></div><div>
<br></div><div>$String='component1,component2,"This is my, test string", component4';</div>
<div><br></div><div>($C1, $C2, $Str, $C4) = split(',', $String);</div><div><br></div><div>I'm only getting "This is my" in $Str and $C4 does not contain "component4". Is there a graceful way of handling this? It's a 1 in 10000 chance it'll break but accuracy counts.</div>
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