12-14-2017
Since you are creating the file, why not use a different delimiter than the comma? Semi-colon, pipe, tilde are all delimiters I have used to separate fields. Then just alter the other program to know the different delimiter.
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cut - remove sections from each line of files
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cut OPTION... [FILE]...
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Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output.
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select only these bytes
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use DELIM instead of TAB for field delimiter
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