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# 1  
Old 06-22-2009
Question awk/sed for splitting a field into two
I have a tab delimitted dataset with 4 fields. I like to split the second field into two, and have 5 fields. I like to remove the "-" sign when I get a new fiel. would you help?

It is like:
1223 100-5 rr dd

I need it like:
1223 100 5 rr dd
# 2  
Old 06-22-2009
You could try:

Code:
awk '{sub( "-", " ", $2); print}' your_file

# 3  
Old 06-23-2009
awk/sed for splitting a field into two
Many thanks scottn! It worked perfectly.

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Originally Posted by scottn
You could try:

Code:
awk '{sub( "-", " ", $2); print}' your_file

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