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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Converting Tab delimited file to Comma delimited file in Unix Post 96122 by mona on Wednesday 18th of January 2006 01:01:25 AM
Old 01-18-2006
Hi,

In the below code, the integers are seperated by tab and not multiple spaces.

The same way in the sed command you should give a tab and not multiple spaces. I think problem occurs when you copy the below contents and run. Don't copy the contents, form the data file of your own and run the sed command.

Let me know if you still face any problem

Code:
/export/home/test/mona>cat tab_del.dat
1press the tab key here2       3       4       5
6       7       8       9       10
/export/home/test/mona>sed 's/        /,/g' tab_del.dat
1,2,3,4,5
6,7,8,9,10

 

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XmTabListCopy(library call)											       XmTabListCopy(library call)

NAME
XmTabListCopy -- A convenience function that creates a new tab list from an existing list SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Xm.h> XmTabList XmTabListCopy( XmTabList tablist, int offset, Cardinal count); DESCRIPTION
XmTabListCopy creates a new tab list consisting of a copy of a portion of the contents of the tablist argument. This function starts copy- ing at the specified offset value of the tab list and copies count values. tablist Specifies a tab list to be copied. offset Specifies where to start copying. A value of 0 (zero) indicates begin at the beginning, a value of 1 indicates to skip the first tab, and so on. A negative indicates to begin counting backwards from the end. A value of -1 indicates to start copying from the last tab. count Specifies the number of tabs to copy. A value of 0 (zero) indicates to copy all elements from the starting point to the end (beginning if offset is negative) of the tab list. RETURN
If tablist is NULL, this function returns NULL. Otherwise, this function returns a newly allocated XmTabList. If the function does allo- cate an XmTabList, then the application is responsible for managing the allocated space. The application can recover the allocated space by calling XmTabListFree. RELATED
XmTabList(3) and XmTabListFree(3). XmTabListCopy(library call)
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