[lug] awk question

[John E. Koontz]

At 03:04 PM 1/27/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Type,Lastname,Firstname,DisplayName,etc,etc
>Mailbox,Harris,Jim,"Harris, Jim",cow,chicken
>Mailbox,Doe,John,"John Doe",etc,etc

Read the line.
Loop over $i, merging any fields that start with " with the next until you 
have a field of the form "...".
Now you have the proper set of fields.

I'm just running out or I'd write it.  It's a bit more code than people 
like to write in AWK, but easily done.


John E. Koontz
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