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cat <<EOF > script.awk
{
do stuff
}
EOF

ctrl-d is not a "cat" thing by the way, it's a terminal thing. It forces the terminal to send an end-of-file condition. If you do ctrl-d just at your prompt, it will probably log you out.

What...

Yes. If you don't have it, try 'pico', its predecessor.

vi-hater's cheat sheet for vi:

i: Stop beeping at me and enter writing mode you stupid program
esc-:-w-q-enter: Save and quit
...

if ( $i )
{
print "<entry name=\"KWName"x"\">"$i"</entry>"
x=x+1;
}

I would suggest using awk because it will work for any number of fields in your input file:
awk -F, '
{
print "<section name=\"Query" NR "\">"
for ( i = 1;...

If your requirement is to get the comma separated values into different variables, then why use awk?
#!/bin/ksh

while IFS="," read DOC PRID ORG NAME
do
echo "$DOC"
echo "$PRID"...

if you don't want space as default field separator, you can define one using OFS
BEGIN{FS=OFS=","} or awk -F, '{.......}' OFS=\, input

awk is working fine.

You may have to change the IFS while reading :)

It's not awk, it's the read command splitting the input at spaces (awk removed the commas before). Why don't you read that file immediately likeIFS="," read DOC ORG NAME REST?

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