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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting printf in awk Post 302303023 by marcus121 on Wednesday 1st of April 2009 04:23:27 PM
Old 04-01-2009
Regarding the rest of your question, if it's always the case that you wish the commas were semi-colons in your new file, you could translate prior to your awk:
Code:
 tr ',' ';' <csvfile | awk -F\; '{ ... }'

Keep in mind now your field 4 will be 4&5 and your field 5 will be 6&7 and on down the line. Here's your data and field numbers now:
Code:
/msa1/profiles/mlibby/ksh> tr ',' ';' <malt | awk -F\; '{for(i=1;i<=NF;++i) print "Fld",i,$i}'
Fld 1 T900001
Fld 2 10-Dec-08
Fld 3 T245377
Fld 4 2
Fld 5 25
Fld 6 14
Fld 7 09
Fld 8 CM Inv
Fld 9 1001
Fld 1 900234
Fld 2 10-Jan-08
Fld 3 954201
Fld 4 0
Fld 5 44
Fld 6 2
Fld 7 78
Fld 8 CM Inv
Fld 9 1001

If you don't want to unilaterally translate, i.e., some OTHER fields might have imbedded commas that you don't want to translate to semicolon, use the split feature on fields 4 & 5 like so:
Code:
/msa1/profiles/mlibby/ksh> r
awk -F\; '{split($4,z,",");split($5,y,",");printf "%i,%s,%s,%i,%i,%i,%i,%s,%i\n",$1,$2,$3,z[1],z[2],y[1],y[2],$6,$7}' csvfile | grep -v '0,,,0,0,0,0,,0'
0,10-Dec-08,T245377,2,25,14,9,CM Inv,1001
900234,10-Jan-08,954201,0,44,2,78,CM Inv,1001

 

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