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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Text qualifier issue causing data alignment problem Post 302796321 by bakunin on Friday 19th of April 2013 08:21:14 AM
Old 04-19-2013
The solution is quite simple: you search for records with more than 2 double-quotes between any two delimiter-characters (in your case ","). The following regexp should do this. Use grep to search for such lines and grep -v to search for valid lines:

Code:
/,[^,]*"[^,]*"[^,]*"/

Note that this will not find such lines if the problematic field is the first one. Search for such lines with the slightly altered regexp:

Code:
/^[^,]*"[^,]*"[^,]*"/


I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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ODBC_TABLES(3)								 1							    ODBC_TABLES(3)

odbc_tables - Get the list of table names stored in a specific data source

SYNOPSIS
resource odbc_tables (resource $connection_id, [string $qualifier], [string $owner], [string $name], [string $types]) DESCRIPTION
Lists all tables in the requested range. To support enumeration of qualifiers, owners, and table types, the following special semantics for the $qualifier, $owner, $name, and $ta- ble_type are available: o If $qualifier is a single percent character (%) and $owner and $name are empty strings, then the result set contains a list of valid qualifiers for the data source. (All columns except the TABLE_QUALIFIER column contain NULLs.) o If $owner is a single percent character (%) and $qualifier and $name are empty strings, then the result set contains a list of valid owners for the data source. (All columns except the TABLE_OWNER column contain NULLs.) o If $table_type is a single percent character (%) and $qualifier, $owner and $name are empty strings, then the result set contains a list of valid table types for the data source. (All columns except the TABLE_TYPE column contain NULLs.) PARAMETERS
o $connection_id -The ODBC connection identifier, see odbc_connect(3) for details. o $qualifier - The qualifier. o $owner - The owner. Accepts search patterns ('%' to match zero or more characters and '_' to match a single character). o $name - The name. Accepts search patterns ('%' to match zero or more characters and '_' to match a single character). o $types - If $table_type is not an empty string, it must contain a list of comma-separated values for the types of interest; each value may be enclosed in single quotes (') or unquoted. For example, "'TABLE','VIEW'" or "TABLE, VIEW". If the data source does not sup- port a specified table type, odbc_tables(3) does not return any results for that type. RETURN VALUES
Returns an ODBC result identifier containing the information or FALSE on failure. The result set has the following columns: oTABLE_QUALIFIER oTABLE_OWNER oTABLE_NAME oTABLE_TYPE oREMARKS The result set is ordered by TABLE_TYPE, TABLE_QUALIFIER, TABLE_OWNER and TABLE_NAME. SEE ALSO
odbc_tableprivileges(3). PHP Documentation Group ODBC_TABLES(3)
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