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Old 04-30-2020
Split values using awk

Hi Team
I am looking for easiest way in python or perl to convert the field values from two columns
The file contains Name,Company Worked(Separated by ; between each fields. It can have multiple fields )
$cat Check_File
Code:
Name , Company_Worked (Header)
Asley,IBM;Amazon;BOA;Google
King.Jr,Wipro;Microsoft;AMZ

Expected format :
Code:
Name , Company_Worked (Header)
Asley, IBM
Asley, Amazon
Asley, BOA
Asley, Google   
King.Jr, Wipro
King.Jr, Microsoft
King.Jr, AMZ

I tried using AWK but I will have to use 2 AWK to after splitting 2 column values .
Code:
awk -v RS="," '{print}' Check_File  > /tmp/Modified_File

Is there better way to handle this via loop using AWK and get the results faster . Any help appreciated.
# 2  
Old 04-30-2020
Code:
$ cat ~/tmp.dat
Name , Company_Worked (Header)
Asley,IBM;Amazon;BOA;Google
King.Jr,Wipro;Microsoft;AMZ

$ perl -ne 'chomp;($name,$emp)=split/,/;for (split/;/,$emp){print "$name, $_\n";}' ~/tmp.dat
Name ,  Company_Worked (Header)
Asley, IBM
Asley, Amazon
Asley, BOA
Asley, Google
King.Jr, Wipro
King.Jr, Microsoft
King.Jr, AMZ

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Old 04-30-2020
Or, awk:
Code:
awk -F"[,;]+" 'NR == 1 {print; next} {for (i=2; i<=NF; i++) print $1, " " $i}' OFS=, file
Name , Company_Worked (Header)
Asley, IBM
Asley, Amazon
Asley, BOA
Asley, Google
King.Jr, Wipro
King.Jr, Microsoft
King.Jr, AMZ

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# 4  
Old 04-30-2020
Hi
How about sed?
Code:
sed -r ':1;s/^([^,]+)\s*,\s*([^;]+);/\1, \2\n\1, /;t1' file
Name , Company_Worked (Header)
Asley, IBM
Asley, Amazon
Asley, BOA
Asley, Google
King.Jr, Wipro
King.Jr, Microsoft
King.Jr, AMZ

--- Post updated at 19:57 ---

If it turns out that a person works in only one company, then there will be no space after the decimal point.
Fix it
Code:
sed -r '1b;:1;s/^([^,]+,)([^;]*);/\1\2\n\1/;t1;s/,/& /g' file
Name , Company_Worked (Header)
Olesya, Housewife
Asley, IBM
Asley, Amazon
Asley, BOA
Asley, Google
King.Jr, Wipro
King.Jr, Microsoft
King.Jr, AMZ

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# 5  
Old 04-30-2020
A shell script with only shell builtins:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
set -f # unquoted $f2
IFS=";"
while IFS="," read f1 f2
do
  printf "$f1, %s\n" $f2
done < file

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