Re: [bug-gawk] 4.7 Defining Fields by Content

[Davide Brini]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 14:36:49 -0400, "Andrew J. Schorr"
<address@hidden> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 05:28:36PM +0100, Marco Coletti wrote:
> > Of course linefeeds are still a problem.
> > RS cannot differentiate between linefeeds inside and outside of quotes.
> > A workaround could be to terminate records with "#\"\n" then set
> > RS="#\"\n", since this 3 characters sequence cannot possibly appear
> > inside fields. Of course this is not RFC 4180 anymore.
> > 
> > Unfortunately my C/C++ skills are very rusted!  
> 
> OK. Eventually somebody will volunteer to write the C code to solve this
> problem properly.

Meanwhile there are awk CSV parsers here (that I know of, there may be
more):

http://lorance.freeshell.org/csv/
https://github.com/dualbus/awk/tree/master/csvawk


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D.