Scripting Question

[Steve Lamb]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Hal Burgiss wrote:
>> cut -d, -f2,4,57,59,61 $csvfile |grep @

> Cute :-)  There's always another, simpler, way...

    Except, as pointed out, when there are embedded commas in a field.
That is why none of the people suggesting Python suggested using
split(',').  Do that once with a CSV with embedded commas and you go
running to you local Python documentation to read up on the csv module.


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