What also should be taken into account is the last field on line 3 that contains a quoted field with a pipe-symbol inside that is not a field separator:
produces:
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-19-2012 at 03:28 AM..
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So this is a CSV file (except that it's using the pipe character as delimiters instead of commas). Whatever is used to process this file should have the ability to parse it. Therefore you should do it inside that tool. For example, if you load this file to Oracle table using sqlldr, it's very easy to create a load control file to populate the "ND" and " " values using NVLs.
gawk 4.0 has the ability to parse CSV files:
Thanks @Don Cragun, Scott Pamu and all who have replied to this thread. Just wanted to know from Pamu will the final awk statement provided by you solves the problem what ever was figured out by @Don Cragun?
Thanks @Don Cragun, Scott Pamu and all who have replied to this thread. Just wanted to know from Pamu will the final awk statement provided by you solves the problem what ever was figured out by @Don Cragun?
Hi Arun,
I also Like Don's solution.
Yes all the problems were found out by Don was resolved in my latest version.
But the query raised by Scrutinizer, if you have "|" inside double quotes and you don't want to consider this as FS. then you should go for Scrutinizer's solution from post 8.
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Dear AWK-experts!
I did get stuck in the task of combining files after matching fields, so I'm still awkward with learning AWK.
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Hi All,
I have a file(Pipe Delimited) where i need to add a blank field before the last field and a blank field after the last field. Please help. I have provided below the sample input records and desired output.
Sample Input:
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Hi All,
I have a file(Pipe Delimited) where i need to add a blank field before the last field and a blank field after the last field. Please help. I have provided below the sample input records and desired output.
Code:
Sample Input: A0010000|Abilene TX A 1|A0010957|Dallas... (0 Replies)
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name: John Doe
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f1 1 char 10,
f2 11 char 2,
f3 13 char 1,
lineend 14 char 1
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f5 char 3,
f6 char 2
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