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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Delete a semicolon and numbers after a semicolon Post 302808023 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 15th of May 2013 09:19:43 PM
Old 05-15-2013
The following seems to do what you want:
Code:
awk -v letter='A' '
{       # Delete all occurrences of ":x.xxx" where each x is a digit.
        gsub(/:[0-9.]+/, "")
        # Insert "letter" before remaining digit strings.
        gsub(/[0-9]+/, letter "&")
        # Print the modified line.
        print
}' file

assuming your input is in a file named "file". If anyone wants to try this scrip using a Solaris/SunOS system, they should use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk instead of awk.

With the input you specified in the 1st message in this thread, the output produced is:
Code:
((A9,(A11,A13))

If you'd like to use some string other than "A" before the numbers added in the output, change the value assigned to letter in the first line of code.

---------- Post updated at 18:19 ---------- Previous update was at 18:00 ----------

With a version of sed that conforms to the standards (including the sed available on OS X), Yoda's sed command can be simplified to:
Code:
sed 's/\([0-9]*\):[0-9.]*/A\1/g' file

and still produce the same output.
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