Shell Programming and Scripting

Try this:

Code:

awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="\""}{for(i=2;i<NF;i+=2)gsub(",","~",$i)}1' file

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Could you check again?

Code:

zsh-4.3.10[t]% cat infile 
123,abcd,FirstRecord
345,"abc,cde",SecondRecord
567,ghij,ThirdRecord
789,"klmn,opq",FourthRecord"
908,"zwec,ctu,kyz",FifthRecord
345,"abc,cde","Second,Record"
zsh-4.3.10[t]% perl -pe' 
  s{("[^"]+")}{($x=$1)=~tr/,/~/;$x}ge
  '  infile
123,abcd,FirstRecord
345,"abc~cde",SecondRecord
567,ghij,ThirdRecord
789,"klmn~opq",FourthRecord"
908,"zwec~ctu~kyz",FifthRecord
345,"abc~cde","Second~Record"

It is working fine.....

Thankyou!!!

here you go:

Code:

sed -e ':a' -e 's/\("[^"][^"]*\),\([^"][^"]*"\)/\1~\2/;ta' test.txt

but it wont work in this scenario: ",hello,world," -> ",hello~world,"

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tr="1234,ram,\"ar,tr\",wer"
echo $tr
#tr="1234,ram,ar,tr,wer"
echo $tr | tr '"' ':' |awk -F":" '{print $1 ,$2, $3}'
echo $tr | tr '"' ':' |awk -F":" '{printf("%s \"%s\" %s \n ",$1,$2,$3)}' | read
a b c
b1=`echo $b | tr ',' '~'`
echo $a $b1 $c