Remove quotation mark

I am using LSMW to upload material. Text file are tab delimited with material code and description. If description contains comma, uploaded data has quotation marks enclosed. That is [description, one] become ["description, one"].
Can I remove the quotation marks in LSMW project?

As an additional follow up to this question I have tried everything you have suggested and I still can't seem to replace the quotation marks. I know I'm getting the quotation marks because my data has a coma in it, so for example it is Gagnon,Annette and it will show up at "Gagnon,Annette". To make matters worse I'm really really new in this world and I also have an if statement in this wonderful converting attempt. This was my final attempt of about 20 different ones I found online...
if not CUSTOMER-NAME1 is initial.
XD02-NAME1 = CUSTOMER-NAME1.
endif.
REPLACE ALL OCCURENCES OF '"' in CUSTOMER-NAME1 with ` `.
CONDENSE CUSTOMER-NAME1.
Any suggestions? What am I missing?
Thank you so much!
Annette
Nevermind... somehow asking for help made it work.... thanks anyways!
Edited by: Annette Gagnon on Aug 9, 2010 11:23 PM
Edited by: Annette Gagnon on Aug 9, 2010 11:45 PM

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