Yep, this works fine (in GoAWK, gawk, and mawk, though not in original awk): $ cat t.usv && echo id␟name␟age␞1␟Bob "Billy" Smith␟42␞2␟Jane Brown␟37 $ g

Yep, this works fine (in GoAWK, gawk, and mawk, though not in original awk): $ cat t.usv && echo id␟name␟age␞1␟Bob "Billy" Smith␟42␞2␟Jane Brown␟37 $ goawk -F␟ -vRS=␞ -vOFS=, '{ print $1, $2, $3 }' t.usv id,name,age 1,Bob "Billy" Smith,42 2,Jane Brown,37 I've also added explicit tests for ASCII and Unicode unit and record separators, just to ensure I don't regress: https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk/commit/215652de58f33630edb0c4463def18419e886ea4 https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk/commit/215652de58f33630edb0...