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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to delimit a flat file with records with SED Post 302251754 by RogCor on Monday 27th of October 2008 11:41:04 PM
Old 10-28-2008
How to delimit a flat file with records with SED
Hi gurus, hoping someone can help with a sed line that can do the following...

I have a flat file with about 1000 records, but in order to import into openoffice spreadsheet, I need to create a delimited file. I'd like to do 2 things with the SED command:
1- add a pipe character "|" at the end of each line
2- (the above will create a double pipe for every two blank links, such as ||). Replace the || double-pipe with carriage returns so in the end I have a delimited file. Im not rigid on how to perform step 2, so any recommendations are appreciated. See the file format below for a better view.


The file format is like this:

Person1
Address
Value1
License Status blah blah blah

<2 carriage returns>
Person2
Address
Value1
License status.. blah...

<2 Carriage returns>
etc...


After running the text file through a SED command, i'd like the file to look like this:

Person1|Address|Value1|License Status blah blah blah
Person2|Address|Value1|License status.. blah...
Person3|etc...


Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
 

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SQL::Translator::Schema::Procedure(3pm) 		User Contributed Perl Documentation		   SQL::Translator::Schema::Procedure(3pm)

NAME

       SQL::Translator::Schema::Procedure - SQL::Translator procedure object

SYNOPSIS

	 use SQL::Translator::Schema::Procedure;
	 my $procedure	= SQL::Translator::Schema::Procedure->new(
	     name	=> 'foo',
	     sql	=> 'CREATE PROC foo AS SELECT * FROM bar',
	     parameters => 'foo,bar',
	     owner	=> 'nomar',
	     comments	=> 'blah blah blah',
	     schema	=> $schema,
	 );

DESCRIPTION

       "SQL::Translator::Schema::Procedure" is a class for dealing with stored procedures (and possibly other pieces of nameable SQL code?).

METHODS

   new
       Object constructor.

	 my $schema = SQL::Translator::Schema::Procedure->new;

   parameters
       Gets and set the parameters of the stored procedure.

	 $procedure->parameters('id');
	 $procedure->parameters('id', 'name');
	 $procedure->parameters( 'id, name' );
	 $procedure->parameters( [ 'id', 'name' ] );
	 $procedure->parameters( qw[ id name ] );

	 my @parameters = $procedure->parameters;

   name
       Get or set the procedure's name.

	 $procedure->name('foo');
	 my $name = $procedure->name;

   sql
       Get or set the procedure's SQL.

	 $procedure->sql('select * from foo');
	 my $sql = $procedure->sql;

   order
       Get or set the order of the procedure.

	 $procedure->order( 3 );
	 my $order = $procedure->order;

   owner
       Get or set the owner of the procedure.

	 $procedure->owner('nomar');
	 my $sql = $procedure->owner;

   comments
       Get or set the comments on a procedure.

	 $procedure->comments('foo');
	 $procedure->comments('bar');
	 print join( ', ', $procedure->comments ); # prints "foo, bar"

   schema
       Get or set the procedures's schema object.

	 $procedure->schema( $schema );
	 my $schema = $procedure->schema;

   equals
       Determines if this procedure is the same as another

	 my $isIdentical = $procedure1->equals( $procedure2 );

AUTHORS

       Ken Youens-Clark <kclark@cshl.org>, Paul Harrington <Paul-Harrington@deshaw.com>.

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