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Old 08-04-2006
vish_indian vish_indian is offline
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what if the Field seperator is a " as opposed to a , ?????
echo "a\"b\"c" | awk -F'"' '{print $1,$2,$3}' " enclosed in ' '

or
echo "a\"b\"c" | awk -F"\"" '{print $1,$2,$3}' " enclosed in " ", preceeded by a \