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Old 02-09-2015
Shuffle Columns in Pipe delimited data
My sample data contains escape characters followed by delimiter. I'm stuck in writing awk comand to swap the columns. please help me out.

Code:
Sample Data: 12345678|ABN\|XYZ MED CHEM PTY. LTD.|C||100.00|22|AB"C\|Corp|"XYZ|CDEF"|

Expected Output Data: 12345678|C|ABN\|XYZ MED CHEM PTY. LTD.|22|AB"C\|Corp||100.00|"XYZ|CDEF"|

Thanks,
Brahma
# 2  
Old 02-09-2015
This is a very straightforward task in awk. Please post the code you are stuck on.
# 3  
Old 02-09-2015
In my pre-processing stage data contains delimiter i'm replacing it as \| and when I try to swap the columns I'm not getting the proper results

Below is the code I'm using to swap the columns.

Code:
echo '12345678|ABN\|XYZ MED CHEM PTY. LTD.|C||100.00|22|AB"C\|Corp|"XYZ|CDEF"|'| awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"}{print $1, $3, $2, $3, $6, $7, $4,$5,$8,$9}'

Output getting: 12345678|XYZ MED CHEM PTY. LTD.|ABN\|XYZ MED CHEM PTY. LTD.|100.00|22|C||AB"C\|Corp

Expected Output Data: 12345678|C|ABN\|XYZ MED CHEM PTY. LTD.|22|AB"C\|Corp||100.00|"XYZ|CDEF"|

Please provide your suggestions.
# 4  
Old 02-09-2015
One way would be to first replace all the \| with some character that will not appear in the text, then do the awk and them replace those characters back to \|, e.g.
Code:
sed 's/\\|/§/g' file | awk ... | sed 's/§/\\|/g'

# 5  
Old 02-09-2015
Just using awk which is ignoring the escape char:
Code:
 
echo '12345678|ABN\|XYZ MED CHEM PTY. LTD.|C||100.00|22|AB"C\|Corp|"XYZ|CDEF"|'| awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS="|"}{print $1, $4, $2, $3, $7, $8, $9, $5, $6, $10, $11, $12}'
12345678|C|ABN\|XYZ MED CHEM PTY. LTD.|22|AB"C\|Corp||100.00|"XYZ|CDEF"|

# 6  
Old 02-09-2015
this won't solve my problem.. some how the awk should not consider \| as a delimiter and swap the columns.
# 7  
Old 02-09-2015
Why doesn't Scrutinizer's suggestion solve your problem?
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