IFS separate a string like “Hello”,“World”,“this”,“is, a boring”, “line”

Question

I\'m trying to parse a .csv file and I have some problems with IFS. The file contains lines like this:

\"Hello\",\"World\",\"this\",\"is, a boring\",\"line\"
         


        

Answer 1

You may wish to use the gawk with FPAT to define what makes a valid string -

Input :

"hello","world","this,is"

Script :

gawk -n 'BEGIN{FS=",";OFS="\n";FPAT="([^,]+)|(\"[^\"]+\")"}{$1=$1;print $0}' somefile.csv

Output :

"hello"
"world"
"this,is"