Re: Quotes being stripped by "--csv"

[arnold]

Manuel Collado <mcollado2011@gmail.com> wrote:

> El 23/11/23 a las 18:35, Ed Morton escribió:
> > ...
> > IMHO we don't need a CSV output mode, we just need a simple way to not 
> > strip quotes when splitting input into fields and everything else the 
> > user might want to do from there is trivial.
>
> In that case just use FPAT. No need for -csv or anything else.
>
> HTH. Regards.
> -- 
> Manuel Collado - http://mcollado.z15.es

FPAT doesn't handle embedded newlines. If that's not a problem,
then yes, FPAT will do the trick.

In any case, I'm not planning to change gawk.

Ed, if you're desperate, we can talk about a small consulting job
for me to supply you a personal source code patch, but let's
do that offline.

Thanks,

Arnold