05-02-2014
I hope I can be clear on my explanation.
We are basically receiving a csv file from the vendor and any field they deemed as text, they will enclose with a double quote.
The problem arises when they also have/use a double quote as part of the data.
In my example, it's an address field of a customer and the name of the street happens to have a quote in it and vendor has used double quotes for the data (Ex: VAL D"OR instead of VAL D'OR). If vendor used a single quote instead, everything would have been okay.
This is causing us issue when cleaning up the file using sed because there's an unmatched quotes in the file. That's why I'm looking to replace any double quotes that is part of the data with a single one.
Hope this answers your questions.
Thanks.
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NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters
SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...
DESCRIPTION
lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output. But any metacharacter in the output is preceded by an "escape"
character, which by default is a backslash.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
-ex Specifies "x", rather than backslash, to be the escape char for metachars. If x is "-", no escape char is used and arguments con-
taining metachars are surrounded by quotes instead.
-ox Specifies "x", rather than double-quote, to be the open quote character, which is used if the -e- option is specified.
-cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.
-pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.
-dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.
-mx Specifies "x" to be a metachar. By default, no characters are considered metachars.
-nn Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.
-fn Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.
-a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing metacharacters are quoted
SEE ALSO
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