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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace double quotes with a single quote within a double quoted string Post 302900116 by drl on Sunday 4th of May 2014 01:20:07 PM
Old 05-04-2014
Hi.

Like Don Cragun, I noticed that the (too short) sample had 2 lines. I assume they should be a single line, and so I joined them into a file data1.

My approach is to use a code that understands CSV files. Here it is, and following this listing are demonstrations on a short sample, and the supplied sample:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) s1	Demonstrate CSV parsing, replacing, combining with perl module.
# See: perldoc Text/CSV

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C

FILE=${1-data1}

pl " Input data file $FILE:"
cat $FILE

pl " Results:"
perl -MText::CSV -lne '
BEGIN {
	$csv = Text::CSV->new(
	{ allow_loose_quotes => 1,
	always_quote => 1,
	escape_char        => "\\" });
	$sq = chr(39);
}
chomp;
# Parse, search/replace, combine, write.
if ($csv->parse($_)) {
	@cols = $csv->fields();
	for ($i=0;$i<$#cols;$i++) {
	  $cols[$i] =~ s/["]/$sq/g;
	}
	$csv->combine (@cols);
	print $csv->string();
} else {
	print " Error = ", Text::CSV->error_diag(), "\n";
	die " Parse error at line $.\n";
}
' $FILE

exit 0

producing on a short, readable sample:
Code:
$ ./s1 data2

Environment: LC_ALL = , LANG = en_US.UTF-8
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian 5.0.8 (lenny, workstation) 
bash GNU bash 3.2.39

-----
 Input data file data2:
"ABCD2","EFGH2","XXXX","1"
"ABCD2",EFGH2,"XX"XX",2

-----
 Results:
"ABCD2","EFGH2","XXXX","1"
"ABCD2","EFGH2","XX'XX","2"

and on the OP sample:
Code:
$ ./s1 data1

Environment: LC_ALL = , LANG = en_US.UTF-8
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.26-2-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian 5.0.8 (lenny, workstation) 
bash GNU bash 3.2.39

-----
 Input data file data1:
0000001111,"IBD","601725","6017257000681563","0430","163458","002820","002820000000","E0107815","1801 3E AVENUE         VAL-D"OR QCCA","0200","","","WD","CH","","4000320275","","124","124",,60.00,60.00,60.00,0.00,0.45,60.45,0.037500,"APP","00","EXC","5"

-----
 Results:
"0000001111","IBD","601725","6017257000681563","0430","163458","002820","002820000000","E0107815","1801 3E AVENUE         VAL-D'OR QCCA","0200","","","WD","CH","","4000320275","","124","124","","60.00","60.00","60.00","0.00","0.45","60.45","0.037500","APP","00","EXC","5"

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

Last edited by drl; 05-05-2014 at 01:53 PM.. Reason: Edit 1: supplied missing global ( "g" ) on the perl substitute statement.
 

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