Padding zeros after removing commas in file - HP-UX

pranag21 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-09-2005

Hi Gurus,

There is a ASCII file in which a comma is used as a seperator for the amount field when the amount exceed seven digits: e.g. 0001300,000. Now, this comma needs to be removed from this field, after padding leading zeros (to maintain the ASCII positions) e.g. 00001300000. Could anyone post a detailed solution which can handle this requirement?. There are multiple records in the file which fall under this category.

Thanks for your help

Prakash

Ygor · #2 (**permalink**) 11-09-2005

This is gnu sed....

Code:

$ echo "0001300,000" | sed -r 's/([0-9]{7}),([0-9]{3})/0\1\2/'
00001300000

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