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Posted: **Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:21 pm**

Hi,
Hope this the right forum.
Some time back Jussi helped with a script for deleting HTML tags. Worked fine.
Now have a problem removing the " character from a text file. Tried Sed and modifying the original script but could not get it to remove the offending ".
Eventually used the search and replace but it took 6 hours to find and replace 2500000 instances of " with a blank.
There must be a faster way.
This is to be done every month so any help in speeding it up would be appreciated.
Thanks
Phil

Posted: **Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:15 pm**

Hi Phil,

Tried Sed and modifying the original script but could not get it to remove the offending "

The s/\"/ /g command should work.

For example, given this file data:

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This"is"a"test"string
This"is"a"test"string
This"is"a"test"string
This"is"a"test"string
This"is"a"test"string

Running this sed command:

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sed "s/\"/ /g" test.txt

produces this result:

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This is a test string
This is a test string
This is a test string
This is a test string
This is a test string

Cheers Jussi

Posted: **Fri Nov 16, 2007 4:51 am**

Hi Jussi,
Thanks for that. Works fine.
I tried /"/, ["], '"' but not \"/.
Got it working from the tools menu and fixes the file in about 30 secs.
Big difference from search and replace.
Thanks again

Cheers
Phil

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