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character replacement using sed/awk
Name: Rohit Date: September 11, 2004 at 19:53:44 Pacific OS: UNIX CPU/Ram: 1
Comment:
We have a tilde delimited file with tilde in the character data also. Character data is always in double quotes. For example
1~23~"abc"~1.1~"xy~x"
We need to change the tilde in character data to a dash, as below.
1~23~"abc"~1.1~"xy-x"
Can we do this using sed or a combination of sed and awk ?
if there's more than one substitution to be done in each line
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Response Number 4
Name: Rohit Date: September 13, 2004 at 19:56:35 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks Wolfbone! Is "sub" a valid awk command on Unix ?
File does have multiple ~ that need to be delimited.
Thanks!
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Response Number 5
Name: Wolfbone Date: September 13, 2004 at 22:16:01 Pacific
Reply:
Is "sub" valid? - Not sure what you mean but it's not a GNU only extension. "gsub" is standard too, in case you also have more than one '~' in any field.
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