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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problems with delimiters Post 302213562 by The Observer on Thursday 10th of July 2008 11:53:39 AM
Old 07-10-2008
Problems with delimiters

Hello,

I have data in a file something like this -

UNB+UNOA:1+006415160:1+AR0000012360:ZZ+080701:0552+2++DELFOR++++T'UNH+2+DELFORSmilie:97A:UN

Here, the delimiters used are + , : and ' . I have a set of such files in which these delimiters vary from one file to another.

I am developing a shell script which needs to take certain values from fields in this file depending on their positions which I will be doing it with the help of cut command.

My problem is how to find these varying delimiters from file to file. Means, in every file , how can i find out what is the delimiter after UNB(here +) , after UNOA (here Smilie or before UNH (here '). I will store them in variables & then search for my required fields.

Please help me. It is very urgent.
 

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rcvpack - append message to file SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/mh/rcvpack file [-mbox] [-mmdf] [-version] [-help] DESCRIPTION
The rcvpack program will append a copy of the message to the file listed on its command line. If the -mbox switch is given (the default), then the messages are separated using mbox (uucp) style delimiters. This is the format used by most mail clients (elm, mailx, etc.). If the -mmdf switch is given, then the messages are separated by mmdf style delimiters. Each message in the file is separated by four CTRL-A's and a newline. rcvpack will correctly lock and unlock the file to serialize access to the file, when running multiple copies of rcvpack . In general, its use is obsoleted by the file action of slocal, although it might still have occasional uses in various shell scripts. FILES
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