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Old 02-12-2008
Help with tokenizer

Hello folks,

Can you help me with this issue:
I have a flatfile says:

line#1:
HARRY WENT TO SCHOOL|SALLY JOINED HIM|AT SAINT ANN|THEY ARE GOING ON PICNIC |CAN YOU GUESS|

line#2:
HELLO SAM|HOW IS IT GOING|DID YOU WATCH THE FOOTBALL LAST SUNDAY|


I would like to have the output something like this:


HARRY WENT TO SCHOOL
SALLY JOINED HIM
AT SAINT ANN
THEY ARE GOING ON PICNIC
CAN YOU GUESS
HELLO SAM
HOW IS IT GOING
DID YOU WATCH THE FOOTBALL LAST SUNDAY

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the file is parsed based on token "|".

Can you please help on this
thanks in advance...


Regards
S Smilie
# 2  
Old 02-12-2008
tr "|" "\n" < flatfile
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