[NTLUG:Discuss] scripting foo help

[Stuart Johnston]

Dan Wright - SPCA of Texas wrote:

>>> I have a CSV file that needs " added to the ID fields like bellow, 
>>> right now there missing the " ( ex: 1263831 instead of:  
>> "1263831" and 
>>> ID instead of: "ID"  )
>>>  
>> Here is a Perl solution.  It will read from data.csv and 
>> print the result to stdout.  You can add '-i' if you want it 
>> to modify the file inplace.
>>
>> perl -n -a -F"," -e '$F[0]=qq{"$F[0]"};print join(q{,}, @F);' data.csv
>>
>> If you have any newlines within your data fields, this will break. 
>> You'd need a full csv parser to handle that.
> 
> your foo is strong :) 

I think you mean fu?  ;)

> 
> but yes i would need to modify the file inplace so
> where would i put the -i 

At the beginning is fine:

perl -i -n -a ...