csvprintf

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "**csvprintf** is a simple UNIX command line utility for parsing CSV files.\n\n**cvsprintf** works just like the `printf(1)` command line utility. You supply a `printf(1)` format string on the command line and each record in the CSV file is formatted accordingly. Each format specifier in the format string contains a column accessor to specify which CSV column to use, so for example `%3$d` would format the third column as a decimal value.\n\n**csvprintf** can also convert CSV files into XML, JSON, and `bash(1)` variable assignments.\n\nYou can view the [ManPage](https://github.com/archiecobbs/csvprintf/wiki/ManPage) online.\n\n### Examples\n\nGiven this input file `input.csv`:\n\n```\nNAME,ADDRESS,POINTS\nFred Smith,\"1234 Main St.\nAnytown, USA   39103\",123.4567\n\"Wayne \"\"The Great One\"\" Gretsky\",  59 Hockey Lane  , 999999\n```\n\nhere is the resulting output:\n\n```\n$ cat input.csv | csvprintf -i \u0027Name:    [%1$-24.24s]\\nAddress: [%2$-12.12s]\\nPoints:  %3$.2f\\n\u0027\nName:    [Fred Smith              ]\nAddress: [1234 Main St]\nPoints:  123.46\nName:    [Wayne \"The Great One\" Gr]\nAddress: [59 Hockey La]\nPoints:  999999.00\n```\n\nAn example of the XML output:\n\n```\n$ cat input.csv | csvprintf -iX\n\u003c?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\"?\u003e\n\u003ccsv\u003e\n  \u003crow\u003e\n    \u003cNAME\u003eFred Smith\u003c/NAME\u003e\n    \u003cADDRESS\u003e1234 Main St.\nAnytown, USA   39103\u003c/ADDRESS\u003e\n    \u003cPOINTS\u003e123.4567\u003c/POINTS\u003e\n  \u003c/row\u003e\n  \u003crow\u003e\n    \u003cNAME\u003eWayne \"The Great One\" Gretsky\u003c/NAME\u003e\n    \u003cADDRESS\u003e59 Hockey Lane\u003c/ADDRESS\u003e\n    \u003cPOINTS\u003e999999\u003c/POINTS\u003e\n  \u003c/row\u003e\n\u003c/csv\u003e\n```\n",
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