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Old 04-15-2009
gehlnar gehlnar is offline
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File conversion

Hi Everyone,

Can someone plesae advise on converting the inputted file into required output? First field is L then amount will - symbol.
Sample input file

Code:
B|T|SASOFTB00016|20090330|20090330|15000|9089001
B|T|SABH00000012|20090330|20090330|7000|9089003
L|T|SABIOTN00029|20090330|20090330|250000|9089004
L|T|SABRE0000012|20090330|20090330|3000|9089005
B|T|SACRSNT00011|20090330|20090330|13000|9089006

Below is Output file and it have some hardcoded stuff at begining and in between.


Code:
851~123456~20090330~20090330~FI~15000~9089001~SASOFTB00016
851~123456~20090330~20090330~FI~7000~9089003~SABH00000012
851~123456~20090330~20090330~FI~-250000~9089004~SABIOTN00029
851~123456~20090330~20090330~FI~-3000~9089005~SABRE0000012
851~123456~20090330~20090330~FI~13000~9089006~SACRSNT00011
I have tried converting the file with awk but got below error.

Code:
awk -F "|" 'BEGIN {OFS="~"} {print $1 $2} '  inputfile
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1
Can someone please advise?

Cheers,
gehlnar

Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-16-2009 at 04:40 AM.. Reason: added code tags
 

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