Hi Monks,

I have written a script to extract the 1st and 9th fields from a csv of the following format,

BED001,137CM BUDGET BLUE B/SET,BED001,BASE & MATTRESS,,Ea,0,0,39.47,0.
+00
BED0015,183CM BODY CUSHION BASE SET,BED0015,BASE & MATTRESS,,Ea,0,0,"1
+,099.91",0.00

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The desired output is,
BED001,39.47
BED0015,1099.91

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The code written is
perl -lne 'print join ",",map {s/[",]//g;$_}(split /,(?!(?:[^",]+",))/,$_)[0,8]' sample.txt As you can see i have used regex inside split to perform this task.I just want to know about any better (or easy) approach for similar requirements.

Thanks in Advance

~suhail

In reply to Extracting fields from CSV by suhailck

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