On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:00:58 +0100, Gert Van Assche
<[email protected]> wrote:
>If I remove the double quotes, the problem is solved indeed.
>I'm working on windows. Do you know if there is an alternative to the SED
>command or tool?
For just removing double quotes, I would recommend the tr (translate)
program. Something like:
echo "CREATE TABLE Source (Segments TEXT);" | sqlite3 dbfile
tr -d '"' <test.txt >import.txt
sqlite3 dbfile .import import.txt Source
The sed (stream editor) is fine here too, as demonstrated before.
For a general stream editor I would recommend gawk, which is much easier
and more powerful than tr or sed when the transformations get more
complicated.
With gawk it is easy to create INSERT statements (from the top of my
head, untested).
gawk -f xform.awk test.txt | sqlite3 dbfile
xform.awk contains:
###########################
BEGIN{
FS = ""
insfmt = "INSERT INTO Source (Segments) VALUES ('%s');\n"
print "CREATE TABLE Source (Segments TEXT);"
print "BEGIN;"
}
# the following action is executed for every input line
{
gsub(/"/,"") # remove double quotes
gsub(/'/,"''") # escape every single quote with another single quote
printf insfmt,$0
}
END{
print "COMMIT;"
}
############################ EOF
tr, sed and gawk have implementations on Windows, for example in
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
Note: you need both UnxUtils.zip and UnxUpdates.zip
>Or is there a way I can force sqlite3 to ignore these double quotes?
>
>thanks
>
>gert
--
Groet, Cordialement, Pozdrawiam, Regards,
Kees Nuyt
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