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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Change the delimiter from Comma to Pipeline Post 302745239 by Arun Mishra on Monday 17th of December 2012 03:52:43 AM

12-17-2012

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Quote:

Originally Posted by pamu

Now try

Code:

$ cat file
Menstrain,A0022699,"Woodstock,IL,2",A0013195,"Rockford,IL",A0013243,"Chicago,IL","EMERGING,QUALITY"
Menstrain,A0022699,Woodstock,IL,2,A0013195,Rockford,ILA0013243,Chicago,EMERGING,QUALITY

$ awk -F '"' 'NF>1{ for(i=1;i<=NF;i+=2){gsub(",","|",$i)}}
NF==1{gsub(",","|")}1' OFS='"' file

Menstrain|A0022699|"Woodstock,IL,2"|A0013195|"Rockford,IL"|A0013243|"Chicago,IL"|"EMERGING,QUALITY"
Menstrain|A0022699|Woodstock|IL|2|A0013195|Rockford|ILA0013243|Chicago|EMERGING|QUALITY

Pamu, Thanks very much for your answer.
Please check the details of the requirements below:

The next month i might get a record like this

Code:

"Menstrain,arr",A0022699,"Woodstock,IL",2,"A001,3195",RockfordIL,"A001,3243","Chicago,america",EMERGINGQUALITY

will your script work for the above ?

My point is the script should replace comma with pipeline at the same time it should check whether the column has comma inside the double qouted qualifier for each record and shouldnt replace those. A column will have double qoutes in the data only if it has comma inside it. Next month i may get different column which has comma inside it and being double qouted.

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-17-2012 at 05:30 AM.. Reason: code tagz

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