tabl-delimited to comma-delimited

[jggrossm]

I only use perl now and then, so I'm not a whiz at it. This might seem wicked obvious to you all, but I'm trying to use this:

perl -pi.bak -e 's/\t/,/g' myfile.txt
which I found here:

http://www.devdaily.com/perl/edu/qanda/plqa00022.shtml

to convert some tab-delimited files into comma-delimited. But I'm getting:
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors. I tried w/o the -e, but got:
Use -S to search $PATH for it.

I'm confused. This seems like it should be really simple. Thanks in advance!

 

[jggrossm]

nevermind. typo.

 

[ishnid]

Just so you know, that assumes a simple tab-delimited file where none of your fields will themselves contain a tab. If that isn't the case, you need something more powerful such as the Text::CSV or Text::CSV_XS modules.