This works because regular expressions are by default "greedy": the regexp engine tries to match as much as possible. In this case it matches every occurence of "=" up to the last one, so that ".*=" (any number of any character followed by an equal sign) is still fulfilled.
Hi
I have lines like this
a=1, b=2, c=3,
a=1, d=4, e=5, b=225,
I need to extract the b=nnn... value. I dont know how many other entries will be before and after it in each line. Ive tried a basic line like
awk '/b=/, $NF ~ /,/ ' myfile.txt
but I think that it doesnt care which comma it... (5 Replies)
Hi ,
I have extract a single field from the 2nd row of a file of which the format is as given below
"Field1","Field2","Field3",...,"Field17",...
I need to cut Field17 as such (no quotes required)..
I give the command
head -2 file_name | tail -1 | cut -d "," -f17
But the output is... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I have totally 10 source files. I want to count the delimiter In my source files line by line and need to store the result in another file. I got the output for the total count of delimiter for one file. But I am struggling to get the delimiter count line by line for each my files. Plz... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
Is there any method we can use to find what is the delimiter used in a text file, asuming the files has fixed number of colomns.
Thanks in advance.
Js (9 Replies)
I have a file in which the following pattern is there
TAG001^A<value>^A
I want to find all such values(words) which comes right next to "TAG001^A" and before the next "^A".
^A is the delimiter here.
Please help!
Note: I think ^A in unix resolves to \001 as delimiter (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I wanted to find 200th field value in delimiter file using awk.?
awk '{print $200}' inputfile
I am getting error message :-
awk: The field 200 must be in the range 0 to 199.
The source line number is 1.
The error context is
{print >>> $200 <<< }
using... (4 Replies)
Hi
I have a asterisk (*) delimited file and there are some fields which contain data having asterisk , now i want to double quote the fileds which contain data with asterisk
Ex:
input file
ID*NAME*EMAIL
1*BILL*BILL@AOL.com
2*J*OY*JOY@msn.com
in the 2nd record JOY has a asterisk value in... (11 Replies)
I need to find and replace a date format in a SQL script with sed. The original lines are like this:
ep.begin_date, ep.end_date, ep.facility_code,
AND ep.begin_date <= '01-JUL-2019'
ep.begin_date, ep.end_date, ep.facility_code,
AND ... (15 Replies)