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Demo to parse CSV file with awk.
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# parse csv files to an awk array. | |
awk -F, '{ | |
parse_csv(r); | |
# replace following line with your code. | |
print r[1], r[2], r[3], r[4]; | |
} function parse_csv(r, _quote, _i, _n) { | |
_i = 1; | |
_quote = 0; # in a quoted string or not. | |
for (_n = 1; _n <= NF; _n++) { | |
if (_quote) { | |
# quote string meets its end. | |
if (substr($_n, length($_n), 1) == "\"") { | |
_quote = 0; | |
r[_i] = r[_i]","substr($_n, 1, length($_n) - 1); | |
_i++; | |
} else { | |
# concat quote string with ",". | |
r[_i] = r[_i]","$_n; | |
} | |
} else { | |
# it is a quote string. | |
if (substr($_n, 1, 1) == "\"") { | |
_quote = 1; | |
r[_i] = substr($_n, 2); | |
} else { | |
# copy content for normal string without quote. | |
r[_i] = $_n; | |
_i++; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
}' |
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