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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 302887936 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 11th of February 2014 06:30:37 PM
Old 02-11-2014
You could also use the csv parse/create functions I posted for you here: Remove the double quotes from a .CSV file except for values enclosed in double quotes | Unix Linux Forums | Shell Programming and Scripting

Calling them like this:

Code:
{
  num_fields = csv_parse($0, csv, ",", "\"", "\"", "\n", 1)
  for(i=1; i<=num_fields; i++) gsub(/,/," ",csv[i])
  print csv_create(csv, num_fields)
}

Note it also removes the quotes, as they aren't needed as the fields don't contain commas any more:
Code:
$ awk -f remove_commas.awk infile3
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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NAME

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DESCRIPTION

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METHODS

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