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Hi, I have to enclose some fields in a text file in quotation marks. When I created the file I used the pipe symbol "|" before and after the field intending to change this to quotes. Can anybody please advise me on this, I'm trying to use awk gsub command to do this. Many thanks, Brian

Name: Jim Boothe
Date: March 22, 2005 at 11:55:28 Pacific

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Here are three solutions to change pipe character to a single-quote: awk 'BEGIN{q="\047"}{gsub("\|",q);print}' awk '{gsub("\|","'\''");print}' sed "s/|/\'/g"

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Hello Jim, Thanks for that, it's just what I needed. I owe you a beer. Cheers, Brian

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Name: Jim Boothe
Date: March 22, 2005 at 12:53:23 Pacific

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Great - but I'm free only during the day or at night.

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