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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove Carriage returns between strings in a field Post 81951 by acheepi on Thursday 25th of August 2005 12:43:19 PM
Old 08-25-2005
Thanks!!

Quote:
Originally Posted by futurelet
Use Awk:

Code:
{ record = record $0
  # If number of quotes is odd, continue reading record.
  if ( gsub( /"/, "&", record ) % 2 )
  { record = record " "
    next
  }
}
{ print record
  record = ""
}

One more thing.. Could you tell me what it does excatly....
especially if ( gsub( /"/, "&", record ) % 2 )

Thanks in advance.

AC
 

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PX_PUT_RECORD(3)					     Library Functions Manual						  PX_PUT_RECORD(3)

NAME
PX_put_record -- Stores record in Paradox file SYNOPSIS
#include <paradox.h> int PX_put_record(pxdoc_t *pxdoc, char *data) DESCRIPTION
Stores a record in the buffer data into a Paradox file. data must be constructed with PX_put_data_xxx(3) functions before. It is of the same structure as the record returned by PX_get_record(3) and PX_get_record2(3). The new record will be stored after the last one added. RETURN VALUE
Returns the record position on success and -1 on failure. The first position has number 0. SEE ALSO
PX_get_record(3), PX_get_record2(3), PX_put_recordn(3), PX_put_data_byte(3), PX_put_data_short(3), PX_put_data_long(3), PX_put_data_dou- ble(3), PX_put_data_alpha(3) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx. PX_PUT_RECORD(3)
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