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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace Double quotes within double quotes in a column with space while loading a CSV file Post 302943658 by mlavanya on Monday 11th of May 2015 03:34:11 PM
Old 05-11-2015
Hi RudiC,

It doesnt work for me as for the data should be some thing like below:

Input:

Code:
   560003_07.28,292.47,"D","1073/1220","44536370","16520","16520/14103000","Vacuum   - Upright (c) - "Vaclensa","Supply of BS36 Upright (3yr NO QUIBBLE   Guarantee) (1)","Vaclensa PLC","03/10/2014","2510","PINON15N001"

After using

sed 's/\([^",]\)"\([^",]\)/\1\2/' < Input file> output_file


Output:
Code:
   560003_07.28,292.47,"D","1073/1220","44536370","16520","16520/14103000","Vacuum   - Upright (c) - Vaclensa","Supply of BS36 Upright (3yr NO QUIBBLE   Guarantee) (1)","Vaclensa PLC","03/10/2014","2510","PINON15N001

Expected Ouptut:

Code:
   560003_07.28,292.47,"D","1073/1220","44536370","16520","16520/14103000","Vacuum   - Upright (c) - Vaclensa","Supply of BS36 Upright (3yr NO QUIBBLE   Guarantee) (1)","Vaclensa PLC","03/10/2014","2510","PINON15N001"


Can u please help me out with this.

Regards,
Lavanya.

---------- Post updated at 01:04 AM ---------- Previous update was at 01:01 AM ----------

Hi Cjcox,

Can u please confirm if i can write the whole code you provided as a single SED command.
As im new to this technology and trying to learn .

Regards,
Lavanya.
 

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unifdef(1)							   User Commands							unifdef(1)

NAME
unifdef - resolve and remove ifdef'ed lines from C program source SYNOPSIS
unifdef [-clt] [-Dname] [-Uname] [-iDname] [-iUname] ... [filename] DESCRIPTION
unifdef removes ifdefed lines from a file while otherwise leaving the file alone. It is smart enough to deal with the nested ifdefs, com- ments, single and double quotes of C syntax, but it does not do any including or interpretation of macros. Neither does it strip out com- ments, though it recognizes and ignores them. You specify which symbols you want defined with -D options, and which you want undefined with -U options. Lines within those ifdefs will be copied to the output, or removed, as appropriate. Any ifdef, ifndef, else, and endif lines associated with filename will also be removed. ifdefs involving symbols you do not specify are untouched and copied out along with their associated ifdef, else, and endiff1 lines. If an ifdefX occurs nested inside another ifdefX, then the inside ifdef is treated as if it were an unrecognized symbol. If the same symbol appears in more than one argument, only the first occurrence is significant. unifdef copies its output to the standard output and will take its input from the standard input if no filename argument is given. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -c Complement the normal operation. Lines that would have been removed or blanked are retained, and vice versa. -l Replace ``lines removed'' lines with blank lines. -t Plain text option. unifdef refrains from attempting to recognize comments and single and double quotes. -Dname Lines associated with the defined symbol name. -Uname Lines associated with the undefined symbol name. -iDname Ignore, but print out, lines associated with the defined symbol name. If you use ifdefs to delimit non-C lines, such as comments or code which is under construction, then you must tell unifdef which symbols are used for that purpose so that it will not try to parse for quotes and comments within them. -iUname Ignore, but print out, lines associated with the undefined symbol name. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful operation. 1 Operation failed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWbtool | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
diff(1), attributes(5) DIAGNOSTICS
Premature EOF Inappropriate else or endif. SunOS 5.11 14 Jan 1992 unifdef(1)
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