By setting FS and OFS to a double quote character (-F'"' -v OFS='"'), in2nix4life told awk to use the double quote character as the field separator when lines are being read from standard input file and written to standard output. This causes the text before the 1st double quote to be treated as field 1, the text between the 1st and 2nd double quotes as the 2nd field, etc. So odd numbered fields contain data outside of the double quoted strings and even numbered fields correspond to data inside the double quoted strings.
The for loop:
calls the global substitution function (gsub) to change all occurrences of a comma (",") to an empty string ("") in field i ($i) for even numbered fields (start with 2 [i=2], increment the field number by 2 at the end of processing each time through the loop [i+=2] and continue processing as long as i is less than the number of fields on the current line [i<NF]).
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I want to remove the comma which is present within the double quoted string. All other commas which is present outside double quotes should be present.
Input : a,b,"cc,dd,ee",f,ii,"jj,kk",mmm
output : a,b,"ccddee",f,ii,"jjkk",mmm (3 Replies)
Hi,
my requirement is to find the count of commas in a string excluding the ones in double quotes.
For example:
If the input string is
abc,xyz.com,lmhgdf,"abc, 401 street","tty,stt",45,23,45
The output should be 7 (7 Replies)
Hello experts,
I need to validate a csv file which contains data like this:
Sample.csv
"ABCD","I",23,0,9,,"23/12/2012","OK","Street,State, 91135",0
"ABCD","I",23,0,9,,"23/12/2012","OK","Street,State, 91135",0
I just need to check if all the records contain exactly the number of... (5 Replies)
How can I delete a column from a CSV file which has comma separated value with a string enclosed in double quotes and a comma in between? I have a file 44.csv with 4 lines including the header like the below format:
column1, column2, column3, column 4, column5, column6
12,455,"string with... (6 Replies)
Hi
How can I delete a columns from a CSV file which has comma separated value with a string enclosed in double quotes or square bracket and a comma in between?
I have a csv file with below format.
Template,Target Server,Target Component,Rule Group,Rule,Rule Reference Number,Rule... (7 Replies)
Hello to all,
I'm trying to match only fields surrounded by double quotes that have one or more commas inside.
The text is like this
"one, t2o",334,"tst,982-0",881,"kmk 9-l","kkd, 115-001, jj-3",5
The matches should be
"one, t2o"
"tst,982-0"
"kkd, 115-001, jj-3"
I'm trying with... (11 Replies)
i have data as below
123,"paul phiri",paul@yahoo.com,"po.box 23, BT","Eco Bank,Blantyre,Malawi"
i need an output to be
123,"paul phiri",paul@yahoo.com,"po.box 23 BT","Eco Bank Blantyre Malawi" (5 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm unable to load the data using sql loader where there are double quotes within the double quotes As these are optionally enclosed by double quotes.
Sample Data :
"221100",138.00,"D","0019/1477","44012075","49938","49938/15043000","Television - 22" Refurbished - Airwave","Supply... (6 Replies)
I have file with are delimited by pipe(|) symbol, I wanted those to be removed except the ones which are enclosed in double quotes.
If your quote file is:
|Life is |Beautiful"|"Indeed life |is beautiful too|"|"But unix is fun| is not"|"
It should return:
Life is Beautiful"|"Indeed life is... (1 Reply)
I have file with are delimited by pipe(|) symbol, I wanted those to be removed except the ones which are enclosed in double quotes.
If your quote file is:
|Life is |Beautiful"|"Indeed life |is beautiful too|"|"But unix is fun| is not"|"
It should return:
Life is Beautiful"|"Indeed life is... (9 Replies)