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Old 07-24-2015
Parsing a file containing special characters

I want to parse a file containing special characters, below is a sample content of file

content of file :

Code:
Serial_no:1$$@#first_name:Rahane$$@last_name:Ajiyenke@@#profession:cricketer!@#*&^
Serial_no:1$$@#first_name:Rahane$$@last_name:Ajiyenke@@#profession:cricketer!@#*&^
first_name:suni$%&*Age:25$#@*last_name:chetri%$*&#profession:Soccer$%^#serial_no:3#@@@
first_name:suni$%&*Age:25$#@*last_name:chetri%$*&#profession:Soccer$%^#serial_no:4@$#$

can you please suggest how to search special character in a file

below is own snippet of code , I am trying to impliment to extract the index of the special character occurance in each line.However it does not work.

Code:
awk '{print index($0,"*[\$]\2[\@\]*")}'

Please tell me how to impliment this.

Thanks

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Last edited by zaxxon; 07-24-2015 at 11:10 AM..
 

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