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# 1  
Old 12-18-2012
BSD Adding fields to a file
Hi All,

I have a file(Pipe Delimited) where i need to add a blank field before the last field and a blank field after the last field. Please help. I have provided below the sample input records and desired output.

Code:
Sample Input:
A0010000|Abilene TX A 1|A0010957|Dallas TX|A0010998|West|US HEADQUARTERS
A0010001|Akron OH A 1|A0010954|Cleveland OH|A0010997|Central|US HEADQUARTERS
A0010002|Alaska AK A 1|A0010991|Seattle WA|A0010998|West|US HEADQUARTERS

Sample Output Required:
A0010000|Abilene TX A 1|A0010957|Dallas TX|A0010998|West||US HEADQUARTERS|
A0010001|Akron OH A 1|A0010954|Cleveland OH|A0010997|Central||US HEADQUARTERS|
A0010002|Alaska AK A 1|A0010991|Seattle WA|A0010998|West||US HEADQUARTERS|

# 2  
Old 12-18-2012
Code:
$ awk 'BEGIN{ OFS=FS="|" } $NF = FS $NF FS' file
A0010000|Abilene TX A 1|A0010957|Dallas TX|A0010998|West||US HEADQUARTERS|
A0010001|Akron OH A 1|A0010954|Cleveland OH|A0010997|Central||US HEADQUARTERS|
A0010002|Alaska AK A 1|A0010991|Seattle WA|A0010998|West||US HEADQUARTERS|

# 3  
Old 12-18-2012
Hi @Scott,

Sorry about the Subject not being descriptive. And thanks very much for the reply i was testing the code with my file and it really works fine. Just wanted to know if awk is fastest or we do have any other utility which is faster than awk as i am dealing with millions of records.
# 4  
Old 12-18-2012
It's OK. Just try to use a subject title that you yourself would type into a search engine and expect to find an answer.

I don't know what would be fastest. You could try sed

Code:
$ sed "s/|[^|]*$/|&|/" file
A0010000|Abilene TX A 1|A0010957|Dallas TX|A0010998|West||US HEADQUARTERS|
A0010001|Akron OH A 1|A0010954|Cleveland OH|A0010997|Central||US HEADQUARTERS|
A0010002|Alaska AK A 1|A0010991|Seattle WA|A0010998|West||US HEADQUARTERS|

# 5  
Old 12-18-2012
You could also try this to see if it is faster:
Code:
sed 's/|/||/6; s/$/|/' file

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 12-18-2012 at 07:26 AM.. Reason: removed quote
# 6  
Old 12-18-2012
Thanks for the reply @scrutinizer but your code only adds blank field before the last field. i needed to add before and after. i can modify it and it can work but takes the same time.

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sorry my mistake your code is fine
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