I have a long CSV file with two rows for each entity and I want to print
only the first row to the output file. It's so simple that despite my
research in using awk I'm not seeing my error.
Gawk script:
#!/usr/bin/gawk
BEGIN { FS=OFS="," }
{ if ($5 ~/'Legal Contact'/) # double quotes also fail
next
else
print $0
}
The script also fails my expectation if the if statement is
if ( $5 == "Legal Contact" )
Sample input file:
'fld1','fld2','fld3','fld4','fld5'
'fee','fie','foh','fum','Keep Me'
'fee','fie','foh','fum','Legal Contact'
The output I want is only the first line, but both lines are printed to the
output file. What simple thing am I missing?
TIA,
Rich
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