Dan, I'd recommend using a tool that actually understands CSV, and
make it parse the input and create new quoted output. I haven't seen
your sed and awk, but I'm pretty sure it's easy to find some special
cases where the text includes comma, quotes or even newlines that will
break your output.
A simple stab at what I think you need would be something like this
python3 script:
$ cat quotecsv.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import csv
import sys
csv_in = csv.reader(sys.stdin, delimiter=',', quotechar='"')
csv_out = csv.writer(sys.stdout, delimiter=',', quotechar='"',
quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
for row in csv_in:
csv_out.writerow(row)
### That's it ###
Then you can pipe some csv through this, here's a sample line where
fields are only quoted where necessary, and the result after piping
through the python script:
$ echo 'a,b,c,"d e","f, g"'
a,b,c,"d e","f, g"
$ echo 'a,b,c,"d e","f, g"' | ./quotecsv.py
"a","b","c","d e","f, g"
Cheers, Ketil
On 14 June 2017 at 07:46, <d...@dan.bz> wrote:
> Thanks Richard, in the end I added the quotes using some SED and AWK as I'm
> using SQLite as part of a BASH script.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On 2017-06-13 14:36, Richard Hipp wrote:
>>
>> SQLite does not provide that capability, that I recall.
>>
>> But surely it would not be too difficult for you to do your own custom
>> patch, or even to write a short program to output the data in the
>> precise format you desire?
>>
>> On 6/12/17, d...@dan.bz <d...@dan.bz> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> When outputting to CSV with '.mode csv' is there a way that all rows can
>>> be quoted even if there are no spaces? For example, here is a 1 line
>>> from the output:
>>>
>>> spotify:track:5vlDIGBTQmlyfERBnJOnbJ,Kiso,Circles,100.019
>>>
>>> I would like it to output:
>>>
>>> "spotify:track:5vlDIGBTQmlyfERBnJOnbJ","Kiso","Circles",100.019
>>>
>>> Thanks!
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