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regex - How to remove new lines within double quotes?

How can I remove new line inside the " from a file?

For example:

"one", 
"three
four",
"seven"

So I want to remove the between the three and four. Should I use regular expression, or I have to read that's file per character with program?

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To handle specifically those newlines that are in doubly-quoted strings and leave those alone that are outside them, using GNU awk (for RT):

gawk -v RS='"' 'NR % 2 == 0 { gsub(/
/, "") } { printf("%s%s", $0, RT) }' file

This works by splitting the file along " characters and removing newlines in every other block. With a file containing

"one",
"three
four",
12,
"seven"

this will give the result

"one",
"threefour",
12,
"seven"

Note that it does not handle escape sequences. If strings in the input data can contain ", such as "He said: "this is a direct quote."", then it will not work as desired.


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