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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting remove commas if touching any letters Post 302610057 by Corona688 on Tuesday 20th of March 2012 06:48:48 PM
Old 03-20-2012
Since it's the quotes that determine whether a comma needs to be deleted, check on those.

When using " as the field separator, the first field will always be outside quotes, the second field always inside, the third field always outside, etc. So remove commas only from every second field. Then use " as the output separator too to prevent " being stripped...
Code:
 awk -F'"' -v OFS='"' '{ for(N=2; N<=NF; N+=2) gsub(/,/, "", $N); } 1' filename > outfile

 

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py_xls2csv(1)						      General Commands Manual						     py_xls2csv(1)

NAME
py_xls2csv - convert an Excel xls file to a comma separated value csv file SYNOPSIS
py_xls2csv input-file DESCRIPTION
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. py_xls2csv takes an Excel xls file as an argument and converts it to a comma separated value csv file. Output is sent to stdout. Additional utility scripts can be found in the tools/ directory. OPTIONS
This program does not take any command line options. AUTHOR
pyexcelerator and py_xls2csv were written by Roman V. Kiseliov <roman@kiseliov.ru>. This manual page was written by Kevin Coyner <kcoyner@debian.org> for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. SEE-ALSO pyexcelerator(1), py_xls2txt(1), py_xls2html(1) October 12, 2006 py_xls2csv(1)
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