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September 17, 2013 08:47
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Convert a semicolon separated values file into CSV with proper escaping of commas. Assumes theres are no double quotes in the file already.
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| awk '{ end=split($0,a,";"); result = a[1]; for(i = 2; i <= end; i++) { if (index(a[i], ",")) { a[i] = "\"" a[i] "\""; } result = result "," a[i]; } print result }' |
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