Converting comma-delimited data to tab-delimited
Hi,
if you just want to replace all commas by tabs, try this one:
perl -ne 's/,/\t/g; print $_;' file.csv > file.tab
mfg Frank.
On 31-Mar-02 Randall Perry sat down, thought for a long time and then
Quote:
> Searched through the archives and found this perl one-liner that's
> supposed
> to replace commas with tabs in text files.
> It worked in as much as it created the new output file; but the
> output was
> exactly the same as the input.
> Anyone know what's wrong? Or have another way to do this?
> perl -ne 's/^ *"//; s/" *$//; print join("\t", split(/\" *, *\"/))'
> your-table.csv > your-table.tab
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