Make a table that will fit your fields and use APPEND FROM DELIMITED to import the data into the table without the quotes. Then just write out the new file from this data.
Should be much faster also...
Bob
>20MBs. The file is for test equipment and we just need to remove the quotes from it. here is a sample:
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>"000005S/ PIN"
>"000006S/ PIN"
>"000007S/ PIN"
>"000008S/ PIN"
>"000009S/ PIN"
>"000010S/ PIN"
>"000001S/ PIN 001"
>"000004S/ PIN 001"
>"000007S/ PIN 001"
>"000010S/ PIN 001"
>"000001S/ PIN 001"
>"000001S/ PIN 001"
>"000002S/ PIN 002"
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