regex - How can I use perl/awk/sed to search for all occurrences of text wrapped in quotes within a file and then delete them? -

regex - How can I use perl/awk/sed to search for all occurrences of text wrapped in quotes within a file and then delete them? -

how can utilize perl, awk, or sed search occurrences of text wrapped in quotes within file, , print result of deleting occurrences file? not want alter file, print result of altering file sed does.

for example, file contains next :

data|more data|"not important"|"more unimportant stuff"

i need print out:

data|more data||

but want leave file intact. tried using sed not take regexs.

i have tried this:

sed -e 's/\<["]+[^"]*["]+\>//g' file.txt

but nil , prints original file. thoughts?

you seem have few characters in sed command.

sed -e 's/"[^"]*"//g' file.txt

input:

"quoted text here" not quoted there never more "hello world" foo bar data|more data|"not important"|"more unimportant stuff"

output:

not quoted there never more foo bar data|more data||

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