Re: Add Quotes to entries in a file


$ echo "ABC;123;;;;;HELLO;
DEF;345;;BANANA;12DEF;44,55;4*12;;;;;;;;3;" | perl -lpe's/;\K([^;]*)/"
+$1"/g'
ABC;"123";"";"";"";"";"HELLO";""
DEF;"345";"";"BANANA";"12DEF";"44,55";"4*12";"";"";"";"";"";"";"";"3";
+""
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Re^2: Add Quotes to entries in a file by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Jul 12, 2018 at 19:12 UTC
This also produces an extraneous `""` field at the end of the string that niseus seems not to want; see this. The regex just needs another look-ahead to fix the problem (if it's actually a problem); see this. Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]