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jwzumwalt

jwzumwalt

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I am using a awk command that changes text between quotes to lower case by using the field separator at the quotes.

Code: 
awk 'BEGIN { FS = "\"" }  {print ($1)tolower($2)$3} ' test.txt > temp

Unfortunately this command also removes the quotes "" from the output.
How can I get awk to keep/replace the original quotes?

Thanks for the help :)
 
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Hi

[ul]
[li]There you concatenated the 3 field. [tt]print[/tt] then out as separate fields. I mean, put comma ( [tt],[/tt] ) between them, so they get output with output field separator between them.[/li]
[li]If you not want to change the separators, set the [tt]OFS[/tt] ( output field separator ) to the same as [tt]FS[/tt] ( field separator )[/li]
[/ul]
Code: 
awk '[b]BEGIN[/b] [teal]{[/teal] FS [teal]=[/teal] OFS [teal]=[/teal] [i][green]"[/green][/i][lime]\"[/lime][i][green]"[/green][/i] [teal]}  {[/teal][b]print[/b] [navy]$1[/navy][teal],[/teal] [b]tolower[/b][teal]([/teal][navy]$2[/navy][teal]),[/teal] [navy]$3[/navy][teal]}[/teal]'

Feherke.
feherke.github.io
 
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Thanks feherke, Your explanation was easy to understand and will help me in the future!
I only have the occasion to use sed or awk once or twice a year and nearly
always use a cut/paste/modify of someone else's snippet; as was the case here.

I always save my scripts and any explanations I find. So, your comment will be added to
my 20 or so sed and awk scripts. I have over 7,000 bash scripts, if that is any
indicator of how little I use sed & awk! :)
 
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