Reading line from file with double double quotes

Question

What is the best way in perl to read line with double double quotes? Example ,

            " This is ""an example"" of double double quotes" 

I need to read this line and perform some manipulation and save it back onto a file . Getline fails if i try to read this file . Is there a better method to read this file and perform line to line manipulation ?

Answer 1

There's no getline in Perl. Are you possibly talking about IO->getline()?

Hmmm...

File test.txt:

" This is ""an example"" of double double quotes" 

Perl program:

#! /usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use feature qw(say);
use autodie;

say "Using builtin Perl file operations.";
open my $fh, "<", "test.txt";
while ( my $line = <$fh> ) {
    chomp $line;
    say "The line is <$line>";
}
close $fh;

say "Using IO::File in order to use 'getline'.";
use IO::File;
my $io = IO::File->new;
$io->open("test.txt");
while ( my $line = $io->getline ) {
    chomp $line;
    say "The line is <$line>";
}

This prints:

$ ./test.pl
Using builtin Perl file operations.
The line is <" This is ""an example"" of double double quotes" >
Using IO::File in order to use 'getline'.
The line is <" This is ""an example"" of double double quotes" >

I am having absolutely no trouble reading lines with multiple quotes using either the builtin Pler file methods, or using getline from IO::File.

Can you be more specific in what you're experiencing? What are you attempting to do? What is your code?

Are you talking about Perl or Python?