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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace delimited value with specific conditions Post 303007287 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 15th of November 2017 01:59:15 AM
Old 11-15-2017
The code Scrutinizer suggested should work on a correctly functioning awk, but GNU awk sometimes handles regular expressions slightly differently than the way they are specified in the standards. But, the error you are getting is coming from the Korn shell; not from awk and mismatched double-quotes inside a single-quoted string in a shell script should have absolutely no effect on the number of parentheses that the shell sees as shell operators (i.e., none).

Although, in theory, it shouldn't make any difference, please try the following slight modifications of Scrutinizer's suggestion:
Code:
awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {gsub(/^["]|["]$/,"^",$i); gsub(/["]/,"§",$i)}}1'  FS=\~ OFS=\~  file.txt

and:
Code:
awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i++) {gsub(/^\"|\"$/,"^",$i); gsub(/\"/,"§",$i)}}1'  FS=\~ OFS=\~  file.txt

and let us know if either of these produce different results.
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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