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Old 10-25-2012
Count characters in a csv file and add an word.
Hello,

I want to add a sentence to "post column" those who are only less than 30 characters.Thank you very much for your help.

Code:
"category","title","post" 
"Z","Zoo","test 54325 test 45363mc."
"Z","Zen","rs2w3rsj 2d342dg 2d3s4f23 d23423s23h 2s34s2423g ds232d34 2342."
"Z","Zet","test4444 dd."

output:

Code:
"category","title","post"
"Z","Zoo","test 54325 test 45363mc. Zoo is great"
"Z","Zen","rs2w3rsj 2d342dg 2d3s4f23 d23423s23h 2s34s2423g ds232d34 2342."
"Z","Zet","test4444 dd. Zet is great"

# 2  
Old 10-25-2012
And do you want to consider , also?

Not tested this. Hope it should work.Smilie

Code:
awk 'NR>1 && length($0)<30{sub("\"$","New settace \"",$0)}1' OFS="," file

Last edited by pamu; 10-25-2012 at 01:43 PM..
# 3  
Old 10-25-2012
Code:
awk  'BEGIN{OFS=FS="\",\""} NR>1 {if (length($3) < 30) sub("\"", " "$2" is great\"", $3)}1' file
"category","title","post" 
"Z","Zoo","test 54325 test 45363mc. Zoo is great"
"Z","Zen","rs2w3rsj 2d342dg 2d3s4f23 d23423s23h 2s34s2423g ds232d34 2342."
"Z","Zet","test4444 dd. Zet is great"

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# 4  
Old 10-25-2012
This code works great Smilie Thank you very much.
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