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Parse csv using awk [duplicate]

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Data pivot with awk

I'm trying to pivot a file using awk. This is an example of my input File: VarName;TimeString;VarValue;Validity;Time_ms A;23.11.201215:03:53;1;1;41236627696,7593 ...
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I have a long comma-separated delimited file with 20K lines. Here's a sample: "","id","number1","number2","number3","number4","number5","number6","number7" ...
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I have a input file delimited with commas (,). There are some fields enclosed in double quotes that are having a comma in them. Here is the sample row 123,"ABC, DEV 23",345,534.202,NAME I need to ...
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How can I turn this ugly output into pretty, useful data? The output: /* ---------- TA#box#AbC_p ---------- */ insert_job: TA#box#AbC_p job_type: a #owner: bob permission: gx date_conditions: 1 ...
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How can I convert tab delimited data to comma delimited data?

I'm requesting a list of ec2 snapshots via amazon's ec2 command line tool: ec2-describe-snapshots -H --hide-tags > snapshots.csv The data looks something like this: SnapshotId VolumeId ...
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How to manipulate a CSV file with sed or awk?

How can I do the following to a CSV file using sed or awk? Delete a column Duplicate a column Move a column I have a big table with over 200 rows, and I'm not that familiar with sed.
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gawk join two TSV by columns (a'la sql join)

How to join, to tsv files, examples: a.tsv c 7 r z d 6 s w f 1 f f b 8 p y a 9 q x b.tsv a q a c r ccc b p bb 0 0 0 d s dddd Here I'd like to ...
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Need help processing a text file with awk to conform to CSV flat file format

I have the following problem. I collected data on reaction time from over 100 participants for an experiment I am running. Unfortunately, the separators between fields were not consistent, but after a ...