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Using double quotes as field separator:

Code:

nawk -F\" '
        {
                n = split ( $( NF - 1 ), A, ", " )
                for ( i = 1; i <= n; i++ )
                        print $1 A[i]
        }
' file

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Originally Posted by Corona688

Change for(M=0; M<N; M++) into for(M=1; M<=N; M++)

Thanks a lot Corona688. The change in the loop worked.

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