Unable to separate semi-colon separated line awk

Question

I am trying to do the following:

1. Read a file line by line.
2. Each line has the following structure: field1;field2;field3
3. Use

Answer 1

It's probably a bug with your awk. Try other formats like these:

while read l
do
    n=`echo "${l}" | awk -F\; '{print NF}'`
    field1=`echo "${l}" | awk -F\; '{print $1}'`
    field2=`echo "${l}" | awk -F\; '{print $2}'`
    field3=`echo "${l}" | awk -F\; '{print $3}'`
    echo "${n} ${field1} ${field2} ${field3}"
done < temp 

Or

while read l
do
    n=`echo "${l}" | awk -v 'FS=;' '{print NF}'`
    field1=`echo "${l}" | awk -v 'FS=;' '{print $1}'`
    field2=`echo "${l}" | awk -v 'FS=;' '{print $2}'`
    field3=`echo "${l}" | awk -v 'FS=;' '{print $3}'`
    echo "${n} ${field1} ${field2} ${field3}"
done < temp 

Or

while read l
do
    n=`echo "${l}" | awk 'BEGIN{FS=";"}{print NF}'`
    field1=`echo "${l}" | awk 'BEGIN{FS=";"}{print $1}'`
    field2=`echo "${l}" | awk 'BEGIN{FS=";"}{print $2}'`
    field3=`echo "${l}" | awk 'BEGIN{FS=";"}{print $3}'`
    echo "${n} ${field1} ${field2} ${field3}"
done < temp 

Try other awks like mawk or nawk as well.