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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need to concatenate spuriously separated lines Post 302584476 by lemele on Friday 23rd of December 2011 10:35:20 AM
Old 12-23-2011
Need to concatenate spuriously separated lines
Given the pattern below:

3113296571|NULL|NULL|NULL||N| 1| 0| 926667| 1001036| 0| 3076120438|NULL|NULL|NULL|NULL|DUE FOR NEW CONSENT!|N|NULL|
10198318|2011-07-25-12.34.02.786000|NULL|NULL|NULL| 0
3113336478|NULL|NULL|NULL||N| 1| 0| 931871| 1001315| 1000997| 3076140580|NULL|NULL|NULL|NULL|Cosmetic; Patient has no Defib
rillator or Pacemaker; Location: Eisenberg 7A; Dx/Indication: Cyst; Excision: 1-2 sites = 1 hour; Additional information (specify): Please put on my excisi
on calendar for excision of cyst on chest and back. Thanks!
|N|NULL| 11418290|2011-07-11-14.14.02.226000|NULL|NULL|NULL| 0
3113338127|NULL|NULL|NULL||N| 1| 0| 927074| 1001109| 0| 3076141370|NULL|NULL|NULL|NULL|Return Instructions (other): v
a only 1st available when patient returns from vacation - thanks!|C|1 month out, not 1 week| 15462510|2011-07-11-14.31.26.803000|NULL|NULL|NULL|
0

whereas the bold-font records are "normal" (starting with an integer field, having NO imbedded new lines within the record), non-bold-font entry is "abnormal" having an embedded "\n" (new line) character [in this example, it appears after "Thanks!"(most probably entered by a data-entry clerk while inputting a record). I need to concatenate the lines starting with "^|" with the lines immediately preceding them (using sed/awk/Perl)

Your help is greatly appreciated.
 

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XmScrolledWindow(3)						  LessTif Manuals					       XmScrolledWindow(3)

NAME

       XmScrolledWindow - Motif-compatible scrolled-window widget

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Xm/ScrolledW.h>

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DESCRIPTION

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       Name			       Class			       Type			Default   Access
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       XmNhorizontalScrollBar	       XmCHorizontalScrollBar	       Widget			NULL	  CSG
       XmNverticalScrollBar	       XmCVerticalScrollBar	       Widget			NULL	  CSG
       XmNworkWindow		       XmCWorkWindow		       Widget			NULL	  CSG
       XmNclipWindow		       XmCClipWindow		       Widget			NULL	  CSG
       XmNscrollingPolicy	       XmCScrollingPolicy	       ScrollingPolicy		NULL	  CSG
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       XmNscrollBarDisplayPolicy       XmCScrollBarDisplayPolicy       ScrollBarDisplayPolicy	NULL	  CSG
       XmNscrollBarPlacement	       XmCScrollBarPlacement	       ScrollBarPlacement	NULL	  CSG
       XmNscrolledWindowMarginWidth    XmCScrolledWindowMarginWidth    HorizontalDimension	NULL	  CSG
       XmNscrolledWindowMarginHeight   XmCScrolledWindowMarginHeight   VerticalDimension	NULL	  CSG
       XmNspacing		       XmCSpacing		       HorizontalDimension	NULL	  CSG
       XmNshadowThickness	       XmCShadowThickness	       HorizontalDimension	NULL	  CSG
       XmNtraverseObscuredCallback     XmCCallback		       Callback 		NULL	  CSG

       XmNhorizontalScrollBar

       XmNverticalScrollBar

       XmNworkWindow

       XmNclipWindow

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       XmNvisualPolicy

       XmNscrollBarDisplayPolicy

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