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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Is there a way to handle commas inside the data when generating a csv file from shell script? Post 303029298 by patk625 on Thursday 24th of January 2019 01:13:48 PM
Old 01-24-2019
Is there a way to handle commas inside the data when generating a csv file from shell script?
I am extracting data via sql query and some of the data has commas. Output File must be csv and I cannot update the data in the db (as it is used by other application).

Example

table FavoriteThings
Code:
Person VARCHAR2(25),
Favorite VARCHAR2(100)

Sample Data
Code:
Greta        rain drop on roses
Liesl          whiskers on kitten
Kurt            chocolate,chocolate cookies

excerpt from code
Code:
sqlplus -s myuser/mypassword@mydb <<EOF

set feedback off
set linesize 999
whenever sqlerror exit failure;
set trimspool on
set lines 2000
set pages 0
set colsep ","
set serveroutput off


SPOOL favorites.csv
select Person, Favorite from FavoriteThings 
SPOOL_OFF
EXIT
EOF

Output needs to be
Code:
"Greta", "rain drop on roses"
"Liesl" ,"whiskers on kitten"
"Kurt "," chocolate,chocolate cookies"

currently I get
Code:
Greta, rain drop on roses
Liesl ,whiskers on kitten
Kurt , chocolate,chocolate cookies

which when imported into excel shows 4 columns for Kurt
Last edited by vbe; 01-24-2019 at 02:39 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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