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# 15  
Old 05-05-2008
the real problem is that the spaces between the columns are not constant. without awk you will need to make a work around using cut and paste and sed. these 3 are available in UnixDos.

instead of thinking space delimited, your sample data is also "=" delimited.

try this:

Code:
cut -f2 -d"=" exampledata.txt | sed 's/ //' | cut -f1 -d" " > output1.txt
cut -f3 -d"=" exampledata.txt | sed 's/ //g' | sed 's/\./ /g' > output2.txt

paste -d" " output1.txt output2.txt > output.txt

hope this helps
# 16  
Old 05-05-2008
cut -c14-17,48-55,61-70 works great
Hi,
cut -c14-17,48-55,61-70 works the way I wanted it.
I will try some of the others as well - just to educate myself.
Thanks again wizards. It is great to know that there are champs out there taking their valuable time to help others. This encourages me to do likewise.
Smilie
# 17  
Old 05-06-2008
cut with the "-c" is only good if your data has consistent length. otherwise, you will have problem in your future data.
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