From: Paul Mckibbin <pmckibbin@...>
Date: 2008-03-20T21:30:56+09:00
Subject: Re: regexp conditional

ciapecki wrote:
> 
> The format is fixed but contains 49 fields separated by | so your one-
> liner could not fit into one line :)

A minor change :)

input = '111|"aaaa" bbbbb|c|"22222" asdasd|ddd|"aaaa"qqqqq|jjjj'
output=input.gsub(/"/,'""').gsub(/(.*?)\|(.*?)\|(.*?)/,'\1|"\2"|\3')

=>111|"""aaaa"" bbbbb"|c|"""22222"" asdasd"|ddd|"""aaaa""qqqqq"|jjjj

This was just to point out that there is no need for multiple replace 
options, but you need to know the layout is correct and in a given 
pattern. Robert's is the better and more robust solution (and also 
shorter).

Mac
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