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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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NAME
gii_cmd_event, gii_cmd_nodata_event - LibGII commands and information events SYNOPSIS
#include <ggi/events.h> typedef struct { COMMON_DATA; uint32_t code; } gii_cmd_nodata_event; #define GII_CMD_DATA_MAX (248-sizeof(gii_cmd_nodata_event)) typedef struct gii_cmd_event { COMMON_DATA; uint32_t code; uint8_t data[GII_CMD_DATA_MAX]; } gii_cmd_event; DESCRIPTION
These are used internally either to the application or the kernel. The same event is used for both Command and Information events. GENERATED EVENTS
gii_cmd_event is the basic structure for evCommand and evInformation events. It may need to be casted to some other structure (depending on code) to access the data. STRUCTURE MEMBERS
code The command or request code. data Provides raw access to the device and/or command specific data. The recipient must not store references to the data. If the data information is needed afterwards, copy it! DEVICE INFORMATION
One use of evCommand is to convey some capabilities of a GII device, via the GII_CMDCODE_GETDEVINFO command code. SEE ALSO
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