Well, creating a gitclone from the xsv project and compiling it shows
problems ahead including severe errors leading to total failure so I
cannot hope to write a length command for it, without having to totally
redo the whole shebang which is a lot of work.
I am taking a look at gawk now as FPAT offers a solution for embedded
commas in a csv field, when the delimiter character is a comma.
BEGIN { FPAT = "([^,]*)|(\"[^\"]+\")" }
// { print "NF", $0 }
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Can anyone come up with a way to specify the FS character to other than
a comma?
man gawk suggests that the field separator can be set with the -F flag,
but how would the gawk file change above?
I have tried
BEGIN { FPAT = "([^FS]*)|(\"[^\"]+\")" }
// { print "NF", $0 }
But that is NOT working as I hoped.
