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# 1  
Old 06-24-2015
Remove pipe(|) symbol in except the ones which are enclosed in double quotes
I have file with are delimited by pipe(|) symbol, I wanted those to be removed except the ones which are enclosed in double quotes.

If your quote file is:
Code:
|Life is |Beautiful"|"Indeed life |is beautiful too|"|"But unix is fun| is not"|"

It should return:
Code:
Life is Beautiful"|"Indeed life is beautiful too"|"But unix is fun is not "|"

Last edited by Don Cragun; 06-24-2015 at 07:02 PM.. Reason: Add CODE tags,
# 2  
Old 06-24-2015
Is this a homework assignment?

What have you tried?

Are you just trying to keep pipe symbols in the three character sequence "|" or are you trying to keep any pipe symbol between paired double quotes?
# 3  
Old 06-25-2015
I am trying to keep the pipe symbol between the quotes

I have tried these, still not getting the expected results.

sed -e ':a;s/^\(\(\(["]\)[^\3]*\3\|[^"]*\)*\)|/\1/;ta' data_file_name

Code:
awk '{  for (i = 0; ++i <= NF;) if (i != NF) {printf "%s",$i} else {printf "%s\n",$i}}' FPAT='("[^"]+")|([^|]+)' data_file_name

# 4  
Old 06-25-2015
Would that work?
Code:
sed -e 's/"|"/@@/g; s/|//g; s/@@/"|"/g' data_file_name

# 5  
Old 06-25-2015
Nope does not
# 6  
Old 06-25-2015
Code:
$sed 's/|\([[:alnum:]]\)/\1/g;s/\([[:alnum:]]\)|/\1/g' a
Life is Beautiful"|"Indeed life is beautiful too"|"But unix is fun is not"|"
$cat a
|Life is |Beautiful"|"Indeed life |is beautiful too|"|"But unix is fun| is not"|"
$

# 7  
Old 06-25-2015
Try:
Code:
awk '{for(i=1; i<=NF; i+=2) gsub(/\|/,x,$i)}1' FS=\" OFS=\" file

or

Code:
awk 'NR%2{gsub(/\|/,x)}1' RS=\" ORS=\" file

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 06-25-2015 at 02:10 PM..
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