SED command Issue with values exceeding 9 - sed

Question

I need to generate a file.sql file from a file.csv, so I use this command :
cat file.csv |sed "s/\(.*\),\(.*\)/insert into table(value1, value2)
values\('\1','\2'\);/g" > file.sql
It works perfectly, but when the values exceed 9 (for example for \10, \11 etc...) it takes consideration of only the first number (which is \1 in this case) and ignores the rest.
I want to know if I missed something or if there is another way to do it.
Thank you !
EDIT :
The not working example :
My file.csv looks like
2013-04-01 04:00:52,2,37,74,40233964,3860,0,0,4878,174,3,0,0,3598,27.00,27
What I get
insert into table
val1,val2,val3,val4,val5,val6,val7,val8,val9,val10,val11,val12,val13,val14,val15,val16
values
('2013-04-01 07:39:43',
2,37,74,36526530,3877,0,0,6080,
2013-04-01 07:39:430,2013-04-01 07:39:431,
2013-04-01 07:39:432,2013-04-01 07:39:433,
2013-04-01 07:39:434,2013-04-01 07:39:435,
2013-04-01 07:39:436);
After the ninth element I get the first one instead of the 10th,11th etc...

Answer 1

As far I know sed has a limitation of supporting 9 back references. It might have been removed in the newer versions (though not sure). You are better off using perl or awk for this.
Here is how you'd do in awk:
$ cat csv
2013-04-01 04:00:52,2,37,74,40233964,3860,0,0,4878,174,3,0,0,3598,27.00,27
$ awk 'BEGIN{FS=OFS=","}{print "insert into table values (\x27"$1"\x27",$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11,$12,$13,$14,$15,$16 ");"}' csv
insert into table values ('2013-04-01 04:00:52',2,37,74,40233964,3860,0,0,4878,174,3,0,0,3598,27.00,27);
This is how you can do in perl:
$ perl -ple 's/([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+),([^,]+)/insert into table values (\x27$1\x27,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11,$12,$13,$14,$15,$16);/' csv
insert into table values ('2013-04-01 04:00:52',2,37,74,40233964,3860,0,0,4878,174,3,0,0,3598,27.00,27);

Answer 2

Try an awk script (based on #JS웃 solution):
script.awk
#!/usr/bin/env awk
# before looping the file
BEGIN{
FS="," # input separator
OFS=FS # output separator
q="\047" # single quote as a variable
}
# on each line (no pattern)
{
printf "insert into table values ("
print q $1 q ", "
print $2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9,$10,$11,$12,$13,$14,$15,$16
print ");"
}
Run with
awk -f script.awk file.csv
One-liner
awk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS=","; q="\047" } { printf "insert into table values (" q $1 q ", " $2","$3","$4","$5","$6","$7","$8","$9","$10","$11","$12","$13","$14","$15","$16 ");" }' file.csv