[NTLUG:Discuss] A quick script anyone?

[Robert Citek]

Are you limited to shell scripting or can you use perl?

If perl, then ...

http://www.perlmeme.org/tutorials/parsing_csv.html

To install on Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install libtext-csv-perl

Regards,
- Robert

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Daniel Hauck <daniel at yacg.com> wrote:
> I know there are several very clever script writers here.  You guys even
> seem to "think" in terms of scripting.  I'm learning little by little
> all the great techniques you guys have shared in the past, but here's
> the present challenge:
>
> Parsing a CSV file and generating some output.
>
> I have a list where the first field is a number and the next two are
> text fields.  A line would look like this:
>
> 10, "US", "United States of America"
>
> I just need to be able to parse this line to fill some variables.  The
> output part I have down pretty well and will be able to transform this
> file (once I get the line parsing part down) into the output desired.
>
> It might be helpful to know that I will need to discard the quote
> characters and just need the text within.
>
>
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