Re: Parse CVS in awk

[Peter Brooks]

I hadn't imagined anybody here would be suffering from Microsoft software -
I was talking about linux.

On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 05:14, <address@hidden> wrote:

> Peter B.,
>
> I was able to APT SEARCH csvtool from the Windows 10 WSL environments for
> Debian 9 and Ubuntu 18.04 without any trouble, so I expect that APT INSTALL
> would work without a problem.
>
> Not the most recent version though; the github version is up to 2.4 but
> the "oldstable" version available via APT is 1.5 (May 2016 according to the
> author's github site).
>
> sudo apt search csvtool
> [enter password for sudo]
> Sorting... Done
> Full Text Search... Done
> csvtool/oldstable 1.5-1+b1 amd64
>   handy command line tool for handling CSV files
>
> or
>
> sudo apt search ocaml csv
> [enter password for sudo]
> Full Text Search... Done
> csvtool/oldstable 1.5-1+b1 amd64
>   handy command line tool for handling CSV files
>
> libcsv-ocaml-dev/oldstable 1.5-1+b1 amd64
>   library to read and write CSV files in OCaml
>
> Personally I have been using another project called "miller" for some
> personal csv projects, and have found it useful:
>
> http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/index.html       Documentation and a link
> to the github repository
>
> YMMV, the tools we choose to use are a very personal decision.
>
> I still use gawk regularly and will continue to do so.
>
> Thank you Manuel for your sharp understanding of FPAT and CSV processing.
> I will be saving that FPAT pattern in my gawk library along with the
> CSVRECORD code.
>
> Peter F.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bug-gawk <bug-gawk-bounces+pjfarley3=address@hidden> On
> > Behalf Of Peter Brooks
> > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 9:19 PM
> > To: Manuel Collado <address@hidden>
> > Cc: Carl Friedberg <address@hidden>; bug-gawk <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: Parse CVS in awk
> >
> > Also, you can't install it with apt-get. You need to get it from git:
> >
> > wget https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-csv/archive/master.zip
> >
> > On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 at 22:16, Manuel Collado <address@hidden>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > El 10/04/2020 a las 15:54, Carl Friedberg escribió:
> > > > Manuel,
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for that link, you have expanded my horizons! And, Tim
> > > > Berners
> > > Lee is in on this.
> > >
> > > Thanks ;-), but note that it wasn't me but Peter Brooks who provided
> > > the link to csvtool.
> > >
> > > Regards.
> > >
> > > >...
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: bug-gawk <bug-gawk-bounces+friedberg=address@hidden> On
> > > Behalf Of Peter Brooks
> > > > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 12:53 AM
> > > > To: Manuel Collado <address@hidden>
> > > > Cc: bug-gawk <address@hidden>
> > > > Subject: Re: Parse CVS in awk
> > > >
> > > > You might find this a useful tool:
> > > >
> > > > https://colin.maudry.com/csvtool-manual-page/
> > > >
> > > --
> > > Manuel Collado - http://mcollado.z15.es
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Peter Brooks
> >
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>
>

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