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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Creating data delimited by ASCII code 1 Post 303036246 by wisecracker on Thursday 20th of June 2019 01:26:50 PM
Old 06-20-2019
Hi dasun...
As a starting point you could try something like this and is fully POSIX compliant...
Longhand on OSX 10.14.3, default bash terminal calling dash purely as a demonstration:
Code:
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AMIGA:amiga~> dash
AMIGA:\u\w> CSV=$( printf "\001" )
AMIGA:\u\w> echo '<text1'${CSV}'text2'${CSV}'text3'${CSV}'text4/>' > /tmp/CSV
AMIGA:\u\w> echo '<text1'${CSV}'text2'${CSV}'text3'${CSV}'text4/>' >> /tmp/CSV
AMIGA:\u\w> hexdump -C /tmp/CSV
00000000  3c 74 65 78 74 31 01 74  65 78 74 32 01 74 65 78  |<text1.text2.tex|
00000010  74 33 01 74 65 78 74 34  2f 3e 0a 3c 74 65 78 74  |t3.text4/>.<text|
00000020  31 01 74 65 78 74 32 01  74 65 78 74 33 01 74 65  |1.text2.text3.te|
00000030  78 74 34 2f 3e 0a                                 |xt4/>.|
00000036
AMIGA:\u\w> cat /tmp/CSV
<text1text2text3text4/>
<text1text2text3text4/>
AMIGA:\u\w> exit
AMIGA:amiga~> _

This ASSUMES you want the whole of (binary1) string replacing.
 

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RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV(3pm)

NAME

       RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV - Export RDF data to CSV

VERSION

       This document describes RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV version 1.000

SYNOPSIS

	use RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV;

DESCRIPTION

       The RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV class provides an API for serializing RDF data to CSV strings and files.

METHODS

       "new ( sep_char => $sep_char, quote => $bool )"
	   Returns a new RDF::Trine::Exporter::CSV object. If $sep_char is provided, it is used as the separator character in CSV serialization,
	   otherwise a comma (",") is used.

       "serialize_iterator_to_file ( $file, $iterator )"
	   Serializes the bindings objects produced by $iterator, printing the results to the supplied filehandle "<$fh">.

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BUGS

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AUTHOR

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COPYRIGHT

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