Labeled Tab-Separated Value parser / manipulator for shell

• Copyright (C) 2013 SATOH Fumiyasu @ OSS Technology Corp., Japan
• License: GNU General Public License version 3
• URL: https://GitHub.com/fumiyas/LTSV.sh
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/satoh_fumiyasu

What's this?

See http://ltsv.org/ and the following example:

#!/bin/bash
# or
#!/bin/ksh

. ./LTSV.sh

## Define a hash to store values
typeset -A hash
## Parse an LTSV in a string
LTSV_decode hash "foo:Foo	bar:Bar	baz:*baz*"
## Parse an LTSV read from STDIN
#LTSV_decode hash

echo "${hash[foo]}"
echo "${hash[bar]}"
echo "${hash[baz]}"

for key in "${!hash[@]}"; do
  echo "$key: ${hash[$key]}"
done

## Manipulate an LTSV from a hash
LTSV_encode hash

Requirements

• bash or ksh (ksh93)

TODO

• Add more test
• Support zsh
• LTSV_encode: Reject or escape TAB and CR character in values