Quick Tip: Double Quoted CSV Data

Sometimes I get SAP data that is quoted with both single quotes and double quotes. The data looks something like this: “‘001′”,”’01′”,”‘100123′”,”‘#’”,”‘#’”,”‘#’”,”‘100123′” CSVFIX will strip out the extra single quotes with the following command: csvfix read_dsv -s “,” -csv Input_File1.csv > Output_File1.csv Seems unneeded but otherwise your output is double quoted. I blame SAP. The…

Quick Tip: CSVFIX Skip First Line

Update Oct 2017 – For most csvfix commands the ‘-ifn’ command will also skip the first line. I say most as I know that it does not work for “read_dsv” which is ok as long as you are not combining files in addition of converting to CSV. The below solution is also good if you’re getting output…