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Old 03-24-2009, 01:06 AM   #1
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Question Awk and setting the FS


I'm writing an awk script to parse a .csv file. These files are unique in that any commas inside quotes must be left alone and the quotes everywhere else changed into pipes.

So far, I have tried setting the field separator to commas and using gsub to swap out quotes with pipes, but that doesn't produce the results I am looking for.

A good example of what I'm trying to do is:
Input:
First Last,"Las Vegas, NV",80

Output:
First Last|Las Vegas, NV|80


Any suggestions would be highly appreciated!
 
Old 03-24-2009, 01:16 AM   #2
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check this out
 
Old 03-24-2009, 01:29 AM   #3
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I've tried that but with no luck unfortunately...
 
Old 03-24-2009, 02:40 AM   #4
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you have not tried hard enough.
 
  


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