A CSV file with commas in the data is particularly hard to sort, even for the unix sort, e.g.:
Luckily, or sadly, many data sets are embedded-comma-free, lulling the unwary into forgetfulness ! Early versions of MS Access had this problem, forcing me to use tab or pipe (|) separated text.
Folks,
I have a bit of an issue trying to obtain some data from a csv file using PERL. I can sort the file and remove any duplicates leaving only 4 or 5 rows containing data. My problem is that the data contained in the original file contains a lot more columns and when I try ro run this script... (13 Replies)
Hi,
I have a .csv file which contains script names, subjects and email_addresses
The first two colums are always script name and subject, the next 20 colums are email address..
What i want to do is sort the email address in alphabetical order for each row and there's around 1200 rows.
So... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
in my csv file it'll look like this, and of course it may have more columns
US to UK;abc-hq-jcl;multimedia
UK to CN;def-ny-jkl;standard
DE to DM;abc-ab-klm;critical
FD to YM;la-yr-tym;standard
HY to MC;la-yr-ytm;multimedia
GT to KJ;def-ny-jrt;critical
I would like to group... (4 Replies)
Hi,
Please help me to solve sorting in CSV file.
I have 25 columns in my CSV. (Delimiter is ",")
Summary columns are from 10 to 13 which are should not be sorted. From 1-9 and 14-25 should be able to sort in ascending. how should i do this using Sort command in unix.
If no simple commands pls... (0 Replies)
Hi everyone,
i am new to perl programming, i have a problem in extracting single column from csv file. the column is the 20th column,
please help me..
at present i use this code
#!C:/perl/bin
use warnings;
use strict;
my $file1 = $ARGV;
open FILE1, "<$file1"
or die "Can't... (13 Replies)
Hi,
I have a CSV file in following manner:
server1,env1,patch1
server1,env1,patch2
server1,env1,patch3
server1,env2,patch1
server1,env2,patch3
server2,env3,patch1
server2,env3,patch5
server2,env4,patch1
server3,env6,patch1
server3,env7,patch2
server3,env7,patch3
I want to... (6 Replies)
Hello all, I am new here and *relatively* new to Unix. I have a bit of an emergency. I have a three column file that I need to sort:
sample name, miRNA, reads per million (RPM)
There are multiple samples, and for each sample name there are multiple miRNAs and associated RPMs. Some of these... (6 Replies)
Hello!
So ive been presented with this comma-delimited file:
I need a print to look as below
"
lastname, phone_number, zip
for every person with a last name starting with the letter H, I
only with a 650-area code phone number. output should be sorted by reverse ZIP code "
I only have... (5 Replies)
I have absolutaly no idea how to get this script to sort the info in Birthdays.csv by date of birth. I know the sort -n command, however i wish to sort the file birthdays.csv by DOB. How would i go about doing this?
The below script gets user info and date of birth and then puts these info a... (3 Replies)
we have a CSV which i need to convert to XML using Perl or Unix shell scripting.
I was able to build this XML in oracle database. However, SQL/XML query is running for long time. Hence, I'm considering to write a Perl or shell script to generate this XML file. Basically need to build this XML... (3 Replies)