Re: Quotes being stripped by "--csv"

[Manuel Collado]

El 24/11/23 a las 9:58, arnold@skeeve.com escribió:
> Manuel Collado <mcollado2011@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > El 23/11/23 a las 18:35, Ed Morton escribió:
> > > ...
> > > IMHO we don't need a CSV output mode, we just need a simple way to not
> > > strip quotes when splitting input into fields and everything else the
> > > user might want to do from there is trivial.
> >
> > In that case just use FPAT. No need for -csv or anything else.
>
> FPAT doesn't handle embedded newlines.

Yes.

> If that's not a problem,
> then yes, FPAT will do the trick.

If that is a problem, embedded newlines can be handled with few lines of 
code, like these:

    # Collect multi-line records, if it is the case.
    # If necessary, add more input lines to ensure an
    # even number of quotes.
    while (gsub("\"", "\"", $0) % 2 == 1 && (getline more) > 0) {
        $0 = $0 "\n" more
        NR--
        FNR--
    }

Regards.
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Manuel Collado - http://mcollado.z15.es