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# 1  
Old 09-06-2013
Break Column nth in a CSV file into two
Hi Guys,

Need help with logic to break Column nth in a CSV file into two

for e.g

Refer below the second column as the nth column

Code:
 
"abcd","[/place/asia/india/mumbai,/product/sw/tomcat]","type/beta-version"

need output in a following format

Code:
 
"abcd","/place/asia/india/mumbai","/product/sw/tomcat","type/beta-version"

Smilie

any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks in advance
# 2  
Old 09-06-2013
Hope this helps you

Code:
awk -F, '{ for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){
    if($i ~ /^\"/ && $i !~ /\"$/){$i=$i"\""}
    if($i ~ /\"$/ && $i !~ /^\"/){$i="\""$i}S=S?S FS $i : $i}
    gsub(/[][]/,"",S)
    print S;S=""}' file

# 3  
Old 09-06-2013
thank a ton for such a quick reply

its definitely working for the above e.g ,wanted to implement this for large dataset and restrict this parsing to apply on particular column, say column 16.

can you please drop a hint.

thanks in advance
# 4  
Old 09-06-2013
for 16th column only
try
Code:
awk -F, '{if($16 ~ /^\"/ && $16 !~ /\"$/){$16=$16"\""}
    if($16 ~ /\"$/ && $16 !~ /^\"/){$16="\""$16}
    gsub(/[][]/,"",$16)}1' file

Last edited by pamu; 09-10-2013 at 07:39 AM.. Reason: Corrected
# 5  
Old 09-10-2013
for some reason this is not working..
# 6  
Old 09-10-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by awk-admirer
for some reason this is not working..
Corrected my previous post. Please check.
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