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This places extra record separators where there should be only field separators.

I'm going with my workaround solution, placing each column to be processed at the end of the list.

Thanks,
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I get the same error with both:

$ echo "a"| awk { print $0 | "cat 1>&2" }
-bash: cat 1>&2: command not found
awk: cmd. line:1: {
awk: cmd. line:1: ^ unexpected newline or end of string
$ echo...

Sample input:
50`Byrd Polar Research Center``<p>Named in honor of one of America's most famous explorers, the Byrd Polar Research Center of The Ohio State University is recognized internationally as...

It is a little odd, but I said "CSV-like" - I know that I am using "`" for a FS and "|" for a RS, but this is not the source of my problem.

Thank you for the reply.

I tried this
awk 'BEGIN{FS="`";RS="|";OFS="`";ORS="|"}{print $1,$2,$3,$4"|tidy -config tidy.cfg",$5"|tidy -config tidy.cfg",$6,$7}' infile.csv > outfile.csv

and this...

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I have a CSV-like dataset where some of the columns contain HTML snippets which I need to convert to XHTML. For any given snippet, I have a functioning config for the text processor 'tidy'...