You could have also picked a different field separator eg Semicolon (;)
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I've solved my own question. In gawk at least, one can delineate fields by what
they contain as opposed to what they are separated by. So what one does is set
the FPAT variable as this:
FPAT = "([^,]*)|(\"[^\"]*\")";
Then awk will recognise a field which looks like this "20,000" as a single
fi
Hi,
I'm exporting my transactions as CSV for processing by another program (awk -
but that's not really relevant). Large numbers in the exported CSV have commas
in them, like this:
"20,000"
In theory the quotes protect the comma from being considered a separator. But
in practice it's hard to