Help with Regular Expression

[Ash]

Hi
I need help with a regex to substitute all spaces with commas, but not
those spaces that lie within double quotes or square brackets.

Input string (this is one long string)
201.7.42.5 - - [12/Dec/2005:10:34:34 +0000] "GET
/liveupdate-aka.symantec.com/1132200683jtun_ennfull
2.x86 HTTP/1.1" 000 2579078 "-" "Symantec LiveUpdate" "-"

Expected Output
201.7.42.5,-,-,[12/Dec/2005:10:34:34 +0000],"GET
/liveupdate-aka.symantec.com/1132200683jtun_ennfull
2.x86 HTTP/1.1",000,2579078,"-","Symantec LiveUpdate","-"

thanks
Ash

 

[Paul Lalli]

Hi
I need help with a regex to substitute all spaces with commas, but not
those spaces that lie within double quotes or square brackets.

Have you checked the Perl FAQ? Please do so before posting:

perldoc -q inside
How can I split a [character] delimited string except when
inside [character]?

Paul Lalli

 

[Ash]

I'm sorry Paul, I just started on Perl last week and had no idea about
perldoc. Did some search on google to see what it is. As luck would
have it, I got the message

ksh: perldoc: not found

finally I found what you were referring to at perldoc.perl.org

thanks a lot
Ash

 

[Tad McClellan]

I'm sorry Paul,

Sorry for what?

Please quote some context in followups like everybody else does.

I just started on Perl last week and had no idea about
perldoc. Did some search on google to see what it is.

Have you seen the Posting Guidelines that are posted here frequently?

As luck would
have it, I got the message

ksh: perldoc: not found

perldoc is part of a normal install of perl itself.

Either it _is_ somewhere on your system, or you don't have
a normal installation.