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# 1  
Old 11-07-2013
Fetching values in CSV file based on column name

input.csv:
Code:
Field1,Field2,Field3,Field4,Field4
abc   ,123   ,xyz   ,000   ,pqr
mno   ,123   ,dfr   ,111   ,bbb

output:
Code:
Field2,Field4
123   ,000
123   ,111

how to fetch the values of Field4 where Field2='123'

I don't want to fetch the values based on column position. Instead want to fetch the values based on field names(header name)

Last edited by Franklin52; 11-07-2013 at 08:19 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 2  
Old 11-07-2013
Try

Code:
$ awk -F, 'NR==1 || $2==123{print $2,$4}' OFS="," file
Field2,Field4
123,000 
123,111

# 3  
Old 11-07-2013
Thanks for the reply Ajay.

But here I don't fetch values based on column position ($2==123). Instead i want to fetch value by the header name .
# 4  
Old 11-07-2013
Try by the way myself Akshay not Ajay Smilie

Code:
$ cat Header_list.txt
Field2
Field4

Code:
$ cat file
Field1,Field2,Field3,Field4,Field4
abc ,123 ,xyz ,000 ,pqr
mno ,123 ,dfr ,111 ,bbb

Code:
awk 'NR==FNR{
                Cols=Cols (Cols?"|":"")$1
                next
            }

     FNR==1{
                for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) 
                if (match($i,Cols)) 
                Ar[++n]=i
           }

           {
               for (i=1;i<=n;i++) 
               printf (i<n)? $(Ar[i])  FS : $(Ar[i])
               printf "\n"
            }' FS=","  Header_list.txt file

Resulting
Code:
Field2 ,Field4, Field4 
123,  000,  pqr 
123,  111,  bbb

# 5  
Old 11-07-2013
Or else , Is there a way to find the position of a particular field .
For example say Field 3,its in 3rd position. How to pragmatically fetch the position of field3.
# 6  
Old 11-07-2013
@bharathbangalor

Did you try #4 ?
# 7  
Old 11-07-2013
Something like:
Code:
awk '
NR==1 {
   for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {
      if ($i==SEARCHHDR) {
         srchfld=i;
      }
      if ($i==OUTHDR) {
         outfld=i;
      }
   }

   print $srchfld OFS $outfld
}

NR>1 && $srchfld ~ SEARCHVAL {
   print $srchfld OFS $outfld
}
' SEARCHHDR="Field2" SEARCHVAL="123" OUTHDR="Field4" FS=, OFS=, file

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