There are a number of software collections and applications that know how to deal with CSV (sometimes TSV, and more generally DSV, Delimiter Separated Files) Many allow the delimiter to be specified in case it is not a comma or a TAB.
Here is one, csv2tsv, that simply replaces the input separator with the desired output separator, each of which can be specified to be other that the defaults, comma -> TAB. This snippet:
producing:
The sed just removes the extraneous commas and spaces from the numeric data. You can modify the header as desired -- I could not see how the spacing there was supposed to be handled.
Here are some details about the code:
And here are some alternate items for dealing with CSV / TSV/ DSV files:
Here are a few other refrences to look over:
Dear All,
I have a comma-separated file.
1. The first line of the file(header) should have 4 commas(5 fields).
2. The last line of the file should have 1 comma(2 fields).
Pls help me in checking this condition in a shell script.
And the number of lines between the first line and last... (11 Replies)
I have a csv file with lines like the followings
123456,"ABC CO., LTD","XXX"
789012,"DEF LIMITED", "XXX"
before I bcp this file to database, the comma in "CO.," need to be removed first.
My script is cat <filename> | sed 's/"CO.,"/"CO."/g'
but it doesn't work. Can anyone here able to... (2 Replies)
I have a situation where I am reading a text file line-by-line. Those lines of data contain comma separated fields of data. However, each line can vary in the number of fields it can contain. What I need to do is parse apart each line and write each field of data found (left to right) into a file.... (7 Replies)
Hi Friends,
I'm working on a perl script, which seems to be simpler. But I'm very new to PERL scripting.
I have a comma separated data file, from which I need to extract only the seventh field data out of available twenty fields to an array using perl.
Any help would be much appreciated.
... (17 Replies)
Guys,
Need you help, i have a a file content that look like this.
Nokia 3330 <spaces><spaces><more spaces>+76451883874
Nokia 3610 +87467361615
so on and so forth,
- there are so many spaces in between.
- e.g.... (5 Replies)
I have a list of files with the same name, but they have a different date stamp in the name. I can find the first file, but I need to find the second file. I am using this information to create a variable I use later. Here is a example of how I find the first file.
"ls -mr... (11 Replies)
Hi, all
I need to get fields in a line that are separated by commas, some of the fields are enclosed with double quotes, and they are supposed to be treated as a single field even if there are commas inside the quotes.
sample input:
for this line, 5 fields are supposed to be extracted, they... (8 Replies)
I need to arrange output of SQL query into a comma separated format and I'm struggling with processing the output...
The output is something like this:
<Attribute1 name><x amount of white spaces><Atribute value>
<Attribute2 name><x amount of white spaces><Atribute value>
<Attribute3... (2 Replies)
Hello there,
I have a comma separated csv , and all the text field is wrapped by double quote. Issue is some text field contain comma as well inside double quote. so it is difficult to process.
Input in the csv file is ,
1,234,"abc,12,gh","GH234TY",34
I need output like below,... (8 Replies)
I am trying to re-format a .csv file using awk. I have 6 fields in the .csv file. Some of the fields are enclosed in double quotes and contain comma's inside the quotes. awk is breaking this into multiple fields.
Sample lines from the .csv file:
Device Name,Personnel,Date,Solution... (1 Reply)