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    Why sed and not awk (or perl or python or ...)? Commented Feb 6, 2013 at 21:47
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    Woaw! Once again someone reinvented the wheel and now craig, you are screwed :) I don't know from where your file comes from, but you'd better change the program generating that crap to make it generate proper csv. Plus, I guess that you won't just keep the csv somewhere forever: you will process it using whatever you want and if "whatever" is not gnuplot or libreoffice calc, you'd better use this whatever directly to parse that broken format. Oh, one last thing: if the guy who wrote the program really wanted to save space, he would just have zipped it or used a binary format (such as HDF5). Commented Feb 7, 2013 at 9:37