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Old 11-15-2010
awk, comma as field separator and text inside double quotes as a field.
Hi, all
I need to get fields in a line that are separated by commas, some of the fields are enclosed with double quotes, and they are supposed to be treated as a single field even if there are commas inside the quotes.
sample input:
Quote:
aaa,"hell world, test text",bbb,ccc," test text"
for this line, 5 fields are supposed to be extracted, they are:
Quote:
1. aaa
2. "hell world, test text"
3. bbb
4. ccc
5. " test text"
Is there an easy way to achieve this using awk?
# 2  
Old 11-15-2010
If Perl is acceptable:

Code:
perl -MText::ParseWords -nle'
  print ++$c, ". ", $_ 
    for parse_line(",", 1, $_);
  ' infile

Do you need to reset the counter on every row?

---------- Post updated at 05:11 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:04 PM ----------

As far as CSV parsing with awk is concerned see lorance.freeshell.org/csv/
# 3  
Old 11-15-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
If Perl is acceptable:

Code:
perl -MText::ParseWords -nle'
  print ++$c, ". ", $_ 
    for parse_line(",", 1, $_);
  ' infile

Do you need to reset the counter on every row?

---------- Post updated at 05:11 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:04 PM ----------

As far as CSV parsing with awk is concerned see lorance.freeshell.org/csv/
Hi, radoulov
Thank you so much, the perl code is neat, but I have to choose to stick with awk for the moment, cause I don't know much about perl, I just want to analyze a simple accesslog file produced by HTTP server.

Thank you for the link, I'll take a look at it.
# 4  
Old 11-15-2010
you can give this awk script a try...
Code:
awk -F, '{
  for (i=1; i<=NF; i++) {
    if (s) {
      if ($i ~ "\"$") {print s","$i; s=""}
      else s = s","$i
    }
    else {
      if ($i ~ "^\".*\"$") print $i
      else if ($i ~ "^\"") s = $i
      else print $i
    }
  }
}' file

# 5  
Old 11-15-2010
I'd suggest sticking with the CSV parser linked, it deals with a lot of things that come up in CSV files. Like field with imbedded CRs or quotes:

Code:
Test,csv,file,"Multi
line field", rest
Also,some,imbedded,"Quoted ""strings""",can exist

# 6  
Old 11-15-2010
Try:
Code:
sed 's/,\("[^"]*"\)*/\n\1/g'

Code:
$ echo 'aaa,"hell world, test text",bbb,ccc," test text"' | sed 's/,\("[^"]*"\)*/\n\1/g'
aaa
"hell world, test text"
bbb
ccc
" test text"

# 7  
Old 11-15-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Try:
Code:
sed 's/,\("[^"]*"\)*/\n\1/g'

Nope:
Code:
$ echo '"hello world, test text", aaa, bbb, ccc' | sed 's/,\("[^"]*"\)*/\n\1/g'

"hello world
 test text"
 aaa
 bbb
 ccc

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