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never mind my previous comment (which I edited). this does appear to work!

let's say you have
dog, cat, 1, 2, 3
reverse, 7, 9, i, tell, you

you want to print

3, 2, 1, cat, dog
you, tell, i, 9, 7, reverse

The delimiter is a comma. The number of commas in each...

All I want to do is echo out so that the middle field is the first, using an awk statement. I just don't quite get how awk works and need an example of beginning, middle and end. I don't understand...

When parsing multiple fields in a file using AWK, how do you group by one of the fields and parse by delimiters?

to clarify

If a file had
tom | 223-2222-4444 , randofield
ivan | 123-2422-4444...