IFS separate a string like “Hello”,“World”,“this”,“is, a boring”, “line”

Question

I\'m trying to parse a .csv file and I have some problems with IFS. The file contains lines like this:

\"Hello\",\"World\",\"this\",\"is, a boring\",\"line\"
         


        

Answer 1

give this a try:

sed 's/","/"\n"/g' <<<"${line}"

sed has a search and replace command s which is using regex to search pattern.

The regex replaces , in "," with new line char.

As a consequence each element is on a separate line.