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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to split a field into two fields? Post 302169380 by vbrown on Thursday 21st of February 2008 05:15:42 AM
Old 02-21-2008
Thanks a lot for your help.

I should have said in my initial post that there may be text in between the double quotes which themselves are in double quotes and may contain commas,

e.g. 18,"<description><job_title value="some text, more text" /></description>",2008-02-19,"N"

I think this makes it a lot more complicated?

I'm also having to use nawk (I'm on Solaris) as each record is likely to be more than 3000 characters (max for awk), but I think the syntax is the same/similar to awk.

Any ideas?

Thanks again
Vicky
 

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