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Old 08-07-2008
Shell script to parse/split input string and display the tokens

Hi,
How do I parse/split lines (strings) read from a file and display the individual tokens in a shell script? Given that the length of individual lines is not constant and number of tokens in each line is also not constant.

The input file could be as below:

one~two~three~four~five~six
11~12~13~14~15
AAA~BBB~CC~DD~EEEE~FFF~GGGGG

Output should be :

Line 1
one
two
three
four
five
six
Line 2
11
12
13
14
15
Line 3
AAA
BBB
CC
DD
EEEE
FF
GGGGG

Your help/hints are highly appreciated.

Thank you,
Ajay
# 2  
Old 08-08-2008
try this....

try this
fnsonlq0-/home/fnsonlq0>cat filename|awk '{print "Line",NR,"~",$0}'|sed -e 's/~ /\
> /g' -e 's/~/\
> /g'
Line 1
one
two
three
four
five
six
Line 2
11
12
13
14
15
Line 3
AAA
BBB
CC
DD
EEEE
FFF
GGGGG

Last edited by vidyadhar85; 08-08-2008 at 01:48 AM..
# 3  
Old 08-08-2008
Code:
awk '{gsub("~","\n");print "Line " NR;print}' file

Regards
# 4  
Old 08-08-2008
Vidhyadhar85 and Franklin52,

Thanks a lot! Your suggestions/inputs have been of great help. They helped me in resolving my problem.

Hava a good one!
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