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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delete spaces in between fields Post 302069901 by JunkYardWars on Thursday 30th of March 2006 03:25:01 AM
Old 03-30-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by matrixmadhan
how would this alone suffice ?...


output of your command,
Code:
echo "1234","Andy ","Rich ","0001","123 Main Street ","Dallas " | sed -e 's/[ ]"/"/g' 
1234,Andy ,Rich ,0001,123 Main Street ,Dallas

double quotes " needs to be preserved

try this,

Code:
echo "1234","Andy ","Rich ","0001","123 Main Street ","Dallas " | sed -e "s/[' ']*,/,/g" -e 's/,/\",\"/g;s/^/\"/;s/$/\"/'


complicating the uncomplicated things.....
sed -e 's/[ ]"/"/g' inputfile>outputfile...
in case u have read the request is to act on file and not on echo statemtn...
as for info ...echo removes the double quotes..treating them as double quoted expression for echo command.....
 

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MSGFMT_FORMAT_MESSAGE(3)						 1						  MSGFMT_FORMAT_MESSAGE(3)

MessageFormatter::formatMessage - Quick format message

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
publicstatic string MessageFormatter::formatMessage (string $locale, string $pattern, array $args) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style string msgfmt_format_message (string $locale, string $pattern, array $args) Quick formatting function that formats the string without having to explicitly create the formatter object. Use this function when the format operation is done only once and does not need and parameters or state to be kept. PARAMETERS
o $locale - The locale to use for formatting locale-dependent parts o $pattern - The pattern string to insert things into. The pattern uses an 'apostrophe-friendly' syntax; it is run through umsg_autoQuoteA- postrophe before being interpreted. o $args - The array of values to insert into the format string RETURN VALUES
The formatted pattern string or FALSE if an error occurred EXAMPLES
Example #1 msgfmt_format_message(3) example <?php echo msgfmt_format_message("en_US", "{0,number,integer} monkeys on {1,number,integer} trees make {2,number} monkeys per tree ", array(4560, 123, 4560/123)); echo msgfmt_format_message("de", "{0,number,integer} Affen auf {1,number,integer} Baumen sind {2,number} Affen pro Baum ", array(4560, 123, 4560/123)); ?> Example #2 OO example <?php echo MessageFormatter::formatMessage("en_US", "{0,number,integer} monkeys on {1,number,integer} trees make {2,number} monkeys per tree ", array(4560, 123, 4560/123)); echo MessageFormatter::formatMessage("de", "{0,number,integer} Affen auf {1,number,integer} Baumen sind {2,number} Affen pro Baum ", array(4560, 123, 4560/123)); ?> The above example will output: 4,560 monkeys on 123 trees make 37.073 monkeys per tree 4.560 Affen auf 123 Baumen sind 37,073 Affen pro Baum SEE ALSO
msgfmt_create(3), msgfmt_parse(3), msgfmt_get_error_code(3), msgfmt_get_error_message(3). PHP Documentation Group MSGFMT_FORMAT_MESSAGE(3)
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