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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Parse apart strings of comma separated data with varying number of fields Post 302235708 by 2reperry on Friday 12th of September 2008 01:08:01 PM
Old 09-12-2008
Sorry, but, maybe I wasn't clear enough in my original thread. tr won't work for me because I need to do processing on each string after it's been parsed and before reading of the next record. If I'm reading this right the tr command will read input from 'file' and write the results to FILE.TXT. This will not allow me to do other processing after parsing the line and writing to FILE.TXT. After each read and subsequent parsing of $LINE I am going to do other processing with the parsed data before reading the next record and parsing it. And so on....

Process Flow/Steps/Loop
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1) Read a record in $LINE (which I already handle via a while loop)
2) Parse $LINE and output fields to FILE.TXT (which is what I need help with)
3) Then I will do other processing using the field data written out to FILE.TXT (which I will handle)
4) Step 1, until end of file.

Step 2 is the only thing I need assistance with. I need to take what's in $LINE, no matter how many comma separated elements there may be, parse them out and write them, one at-a-time, to FILE.TXT. Once all elements have been written out for $LINE I will then use that data for other processing. Then I will read the next record into $LINE. And so on.
 

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