AWK – Parsing SQL output

I have a SQL output something like below from the output of a custom tool. Would appreciate any help in finding what I am doing incorrectly.

column1                  | column2 | column3 | column4 | column5 | column6 |     column7     | column8 | column9 |        column10            |          column11          
--------------------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+--------------------+-----------------------+--------------------+---------------+----------------
 cec75                   | 1234     | 007    |         |    2810 |         | SOME_TEXT       |         |         | 2020-12-07 20:28:46.865+00 | 2020-12-08 06:40:10.231635+00
(1 row)

I am trying to pipe this output the columns I need in my case column1, column2, and column7. I have tried piping out like this but it just prints column1

tool check | awk '{print $1, $2}'

column1 |
--------------------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+--------------------+-----------------------+--------------------+---------------+----------------+----------------------------+------------------------------- 
cec75 |
(1 row) 

It would be nice to have something like this.

ce7c5,1234,SOME_TEXT

My file contents

                  column1                  | column2 | column3 | column4 | column5 | column6 |     column7     | column8 | column9 |        column10         |          column11          
--------------------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+--------------------+-----------------------+--------------------+---------------+----------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------
 6601c | 2396     | 123         |             |               9350 |                       | SOME_TEXT |               |                | 2020-12-07 22:49:01.023+00 | 2020-12-08 07:22:37.419669+00
(1 row)


                  column1                  | column2 | column3 | column4 | column5 | column6 |     column7     | column8 | column9 |        column10         |          column11          
--------------------------------------+----------+-------------+-------------+--------------------+-----------------------+--------------------+---------------+----------------+----------------------------+-------------------------------
 cec75 | 1567     | 007        |             |               2810 |                       | SOME_TEXT |               |                | 2020-12-07 20:28:46.865+00 | 2020-12-08 07:28:10.319888+00
(1 row)

Answer

Description:

Command line switches…

• The delimiter is | surrounded by spaces. (Note that we need to use a couple of ‘s to escape | if we feed the regex for the delimiter in from the command line.)
• In addition to input delimiter (input field separator) the output delimiter (output field separator) can also be set using a command line switch.

The awk script…

• If a header is encountered or a ( is seen on a line, it’s not a valid line; so, just ignore it.
• If the line now has any alphanumeric characters, it’s now a valid line to operate on; so, and we strip the leading spaces off the line, and then print the columns we want.

tool check | awk -F' *\| *' -v OFS=, '/column|(/ { next } /[[:alnum:]]/ { sub(/^ +/, ""); print $1, $2, $7 }'

Examining the data more closely… It looks as though the date-stamp (which always has a : in it) might be present on all valid records… If so, the script can be reduced to something much more simple.

tool check | awk -F' *\| *' -v OFS=, '$10 ~ /:/ { sub(/^ +/, ""); print $1, $2, $7 }'