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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to delete the commas in a .CSV file that are enclosed in a string with double quotes? Post 302887691 by dhruuv369 on Monday 10th of February 2014 10:03:12 AM
Old 02-10-2014
How to delete the commas in a .CSV file that are enclosed in a string with double quotes?
Okay, I would like to delete all the commas in a .CSV file (TEST.CSV) or at least substitute them with empty space, that are enclosed in double quote.

Please see the sample file as below:
Code:
column 1,column 2,column 3,column 4,column 5,column 6,column 7,column 8,column 9,column 10
12310,42324564756,"a simple string with a , comma","string with or, without commas",string 1,USD,12,70%,08/01/2013,
23455,12312255564,"string, with, multiple, commas","string with or, without commas",string 2,USD,433,70%,07/15/2013,
23525,74535243123,"string , with commas, and - hypens and: semicolans","string with or, without commas",string 1,CAND,744,70%,05/06/2013,
46476,15467534544,"lengthy string, with commas, multiple: colans","string with or, without commas",string 2,CAND,388,70%,09/21/2013,

I was trying the below code but, it is deleting all the commas in the file:
Code:
awk -F'"' '{gsub (/,/,"\001",$0)}1' OFS='"' TEST.CSV

Using either SED or AWK I am expecting the output as below:
Code:
column 1,column 2,column 3,column 4,column 5,column 6,column 7,column 8,column 9,column 10
12310,42324564756,"a simple string with a  comma","string with or without commas",string 1,USD,12,70%,08/01/2013,
23455,12312255564,"string with multiple commas","string with or without commas",string 2,USD,433,70%,07/15/2013,
23525,74535243123,"string with commas and - hypens and: semicolans","string with or without commas",string 1,CAND,744,70%,05/06/2013,
46476,15467534544,"lengthy string with commas multiple: colans","string with or without commas",string 2,CAND,388,70%,09/21/2013,

 

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