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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to parse csv format? Post 302435529 by chebarbudo on Wednesday 7th of July 2010 05:29:32 PM
Old 07-07-2010
Thanks pravin27,
I forgot to say that I'm trying to find a shell language solution.
Altough your approach is interesting, I can't make it work. Do I need to do something special?
Code:
Can't locate Text/CSV.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at parser.pl line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at parser.pl line 4.

Thanks rdcwayx,
I like your awk approach because it can fit my needs. But I get the following error:
Code:
awk: line 2: illegal reference to array a

What did I do wrong?

---------- Post updated at 22:29 ---------- Previous update was at 19:33 ----------

Hi there,
I did it another way (inspired by rdcwayx's idea) with sed:
The whole idea is to be able to interpret the csv output of inotifywait.
Code:
inotifywait -mrc -e modify -e attrib -e moved_to -e create /tmp/ 2>"$inotify_err" | while read -r; do
	eval "$(echo "$REPLY" | sed -r 's#'\''#'\'\\\\\'\''#; s#^("([^"]*)"|([^"][^,]*)),("([^"]*)"|([^"][^,]*)),("([^"]*)"|([^"][^,]*))$#file_name='\''\2\3\8\9'\''; action='\''\5\6'\''#')"
	echo "fn=$file_name"
	echo "a=$action"
done

Thanks for your help
Santiago
 

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PFUNC(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						  PFUNC(1)

NAME

       pfunc - grep for perl functions

SYNOPSIS

	   pfunc subroutine FILES...

DESCRIPTION

       pfunc searches the named FILES for all calls to the given subroutine.  It will report back the file and line number each call is found on
       along with what sort of call it is

	   function	       foo()
	   class method        Class->foo()
	   object method       $obj->foo()

EXAMPLE

	   $ pfunc isa /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/*.pm
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 316
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 327
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 397
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 494
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CGI.pm at line 495
	   Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/CPAN.pm at line 4957
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 191
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 218
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 248
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 251
	   Called as function in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Dumpvalue.pm at line 254
	   Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/Shell.pm at line 28
	   Called as object method in /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm at line 12

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