i.e. commas present within the column which has double quotes has to be replaced by the !@%.
To achieve this I have used sed.
But now the requirement has changed. Previously I was expecting only 1 or 2 commas i.e. a pattern like "abc,gbf" or "abc,kil,jik" can only come but now I have to generalize it for any no of commas i.e 1,2,3 ---
Any ideas about how to achieve the above.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Last edited by Franklin52; 04-27-2011 at 04:09 AM..
Reason: Please use code tags
Found the answer thanks to Google.
Pasting it below for ready reference in case someone is not aware of Sed Branching like me ---------- Post updated at 10:19 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:11 PM ----------
The code using sed :up
s/\("[^,]*\),\(.*"\)/\1!@%\2/
t upwill not work properly in case the input record is of this type
Jacuzzi,"Jet Rings!@% Pillows",Accessory,"abc,def",Optional,,9230917,69094,,P556805,69094,FALSE,1,0,,
i.e if there are multiple columns with double quotes the sed command will fail.
any ideas how to over come this limitation.
Thanks for your help in advance.
Last edited by Franklin52; 04-28-2011 at 05:08 AM..
Reason: Please use code tags
If you notice carefully, one double quotes either ends with comma or with end of line. Based on that we can pair up the double quotes. The above code is based on that logic.
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