Hi,
I need to split a string, either using awk or cut or basic unix commands (no programming) , with a multibyte charectar as a delimeter.
Ex:
abcd-efgh-ijkl
split by -efgh- to get two segments abcd & ijkl
Is it possible?
Thanks
A.H.S (1 Reply)
Hello,
I need to replace the comma to something else between the single quote:
1aaa,bbb,'cc,cc','ddd',1
2aaa,bbb,'ccc','d,d',0
to
1aaa,bbb,'cc<comma>cc','ddd',1
2aaa,bbb,'ccc','d<comma>d',0
Can someone help? Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hi,
I've been trying to write a regex to use in egrep (in a shell script) that'll fetch the names of all the files that match a particular pattern. I expect to match the following line in a file:
Name = "abc"
The regex I'm using to match the same is:
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Hi,
I have variable inside shell script - from_item.
from_item = 40.1'1/16
i have to first find out whether FROM_ITEM contains single quote(').
If yes, then that need to be replace with two quotes ('').
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Hi;
I want to write a shell script that will split a string with no delimiter.
Basically the script will read a line from a file.
For example the line it read from the file contains:
99234523
These values are never the same but the length will always be 8.
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"Field1","Field2, additional info","Field3",...,"Field17",...
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Hi Froum.
I have tried in vain to find a solution for this problem - I'm trying to replace any double quotes within a quoted string with a single quote, leaving everything else as is.
I have the following data:
Before:
... (32 Replies)
From:
1,2,3,4,5,This is a test
6,7,8,9,0,"This, is a test"
1,9,2,8,3,"This is a ""test"""
4,7,3,1,8,""""
To:
1,2,3,4,5,This is a test
6,7,8,9,0,"This; is a test"
1,9,2,8,3,"This is a ''test''"
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I have a comma separated file which contains data like;
File header:
ID_WVR,SAK_WVR_SVC,DSC_WVR_WVC,SAK_PROCEDURE,CODES,CDE_PROC_MOD ,CDE_PROC_MOD_2 ,CDE_PROC_MOD_3
File Detail:
AMR,5100,Total Services,305,D0120,,,
AMR,5101,Periodic Services,40702,H2011,U1,,
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