Replace semicolon within double quotes in a file with semicolon delimiter
Hello Team,
Could you please help me with the below question?
I have a file with the following properties
1) File Delimiter is ;
2) Text columns are within double quotes
3) Numeric columns will not have double quotes
4) File has total 6 columns
Please see a sample record from file
Here the last column has a semicolon in between. As a result my script is not reading the file correctly.
Do we have a way to replace the semicolon with space?
Regards
Sam
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total
TOTAL(1) General Commands Manual TOTAL(1)NAME
total - sum up columns
SYNOPSIS
total [ -m ][ -sE | -p | -u | -l ][ -i{f|d}[N] ][ -o{f|d} ][ -tC ][ -N [ -r ]] [ file .. ]
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Total sums up columns of real numbers from one or more files and prints out the result on its standard output.
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AUTHOR
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SEE ALSO cnt(1), neaten(1), rcalc(1), rlam(1), tabfunc(1)RADIANCE 2/3/95 TOTAL(1)