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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to use regex on particular column (Removing comma from particular column)? Post 302918471 by Don Cragun on Tuesday 23rd of September 2014 12:44:05 PM
Old 09-23-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by RavinderSingh13
Hello Don,

Above code will give the requested output but it wouldn't have OFS (Output field seprator) as |. So just adding the same to your suggestion.

Code:
awk -F"|" '{gsub(/\,/,X,$5)} 1' OFS="|"  Input_file ## For removing all commas in 5th field
OR
awk -F"|" '{sub(/\,/,X,$5)} 1' OFS="|"  Input_file  ## For removing 1st comma in 5th field

Thanks,
R. Singh
Thanks Ravinder,
I obviously need to get more sleep. Smilie
 

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SYNOPSIS
string db2_field_name (resource $stmt, mixed $column) DESCRIPTION
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