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Old 09-15-2005
awk programming and sub function
I'm trying to use awk function sub or even gsub to search a file and replace all occurences of "$curYear|" with "$curYear ".

I need to remove the pipe delimator from only that field. I'm getting

awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: illegal statement near line 1

with this use in my ksh script

awk '{gsub(/$curYear|/, "$curYear ", $ofile)}'
# 2  
Old 09-15-2005
I am by no means an awk-expert, but I'll take a shot...

Did you try escaping the pipe-character by preciding it with a backslash? Like so:
Code:
awk '{gsub(/$curYear\|/, "$curYear ", $ofile)}'

# 3  
Old 09-15-2005
Nope
I just tried it but to no avail. I got the same error message.
# 4  
Old 09-15-2005
Code:
echo 'foo $curYear|bar|fred$curYear|zee bar1 bar2' | nawk '{gsub(/[$]curYear[|]/, "$curYear", $2); print}'

# 5  
Old 09-15-2005
Using the Ruby language, you can edit the file in place:

Code:
ruby -i.bak -pe'gsub(/\$curYear\|/, "$curYear ")' myfile

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