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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Delimeters Count in a FlatFile Post 302483155 by venkatajay_18 on Friday 24th of December 2010 04:19:43 AM
Old 12-24-2010
Delimeters Count in a FlatFile
Hi,

I have the below script to check the count of delimeters for a file (here is File : test.csv Delimeter is ",")
Code:
awk '{gsub(/"[^"]*"/,x);print gsub(/,/,x)}' test.csv

And it return the output for each line as:
Code:
2
2

Code:
cat test.csv:
abc,xyz
"abc,zxyz",1

I need help one the below things:
- IS there a way to pass the delimeter as a variable ? I am using the below command but it is not working?
Code:
awk -vs="," '{gsub(/"[^"]*"/,x);print gsub(/s/,x)}' test.csv

- Can I validate a file whether it has same delimeter count across all the lines of file rather than for each line?

Please help! Thanks a lot
Last edited by Scott; 12-24-2010 at 05:35 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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