[lug] awk question

[Bear Giles]

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Joseph McDonald wrote:
| Perhaps I'm missing something here:
|
| nemo at otho.scare:[~]:% cat test.txt
| "one","two","three,four","five"
|
| nemo at otho.scare:[~]:% cat test.txt | awk -F\",\" '{print $3}'
| three,four

Sure, but '{print $1}' gives you
"one

and '{print $4}' gives you
five"

which is probably not what you want.

Bear
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