How to substitute a comma for a pipe in SED?
Using sed, I’d like to substitute every comma that is outside of double quotes for a pipe. Could you help me with the regex for that? If your sed supports the -E option ( -r in some implementations):
When to replace a comma in a pattern?
Here, assuming quotes are balanced in the input, the pattern would match all the input, breaking it up in either: And only when the matched string is a comma (when $1 is not defined in the replacement part), replace it with a |.
How to replace a quote with a double quote?
There is a sample with mixed quoted, non-quoted, and one field containing a quote, but double quoted:
When do you use space after a comma?
If your comma are ALWAY followed by a space in text strings, and NEVER in field separation, you could use: but you have to be sure about next character. More elaborated sample, whithout need of space, closest to your original idea.
How to replace a comma in a UTF8 file?
Hello all, I’d like to replace “,” by “/” in a utf8 file from postion X to Y. Comma “,” is also defined as delimiter. 12345678901234567890,123456789012345,12345678901234567890, aaaa,aaaa,aaaaa ,bbb,bbbb,bbbbb ,cccccc,cc , Result should be… 9. Shell Programming and Scripting Hi, I have a requirement to replace the comma’s inside the double quotes.
How to replace white space with a comma?
SHELL SCRIPT Hi I have a file in the following format Mayank Sushant Dheeraj Kunal ARUN Samir How can i replace the white space in between and replace them with a comma?? The resultant output should be Mayank,Sushant Dheeraj,Kunal ARUN,Samir i tried using sed -e…
When to replace a comma with a | in CSV?
And only when the matched string is a comma (when $1 is not defined in the replacement part), replace it with a |. The tools in csvkit knows how to handle the intricacies of CVS files, and here we’re using csvformat to replace the delimiting commas with | correctly.