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era, apologies for late response, my system went down and I went on leave. Your reply worked a treat, thanks very much.

Need to replace any occurence of a single number followed by comma with same single number followed by semicolon. E.g. 9, with 9;

Appreciate any help

Can anyone recommend an free-text retrieval utility? Open source or free preferred. Any views on say IQ-text?

I need to change the date in a text file from dd/mm/yyyy to dd-mmm-yyyy.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

The second and third replies worked great. The second halted at 100 rows, but this could be due to the counters. I will have a play with the command.

Thanks again.

Thanks for your replies, very much appreciated. I'll let you know the results, but look promising.

I,m trying to delete the 10th and onwards occurrence of "," on each line, to remove embedded commas in an address field in csv files.

I have tried sed 's/,/ /10g' file > newfile, but this doesn't...