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I got it to work.

Thanks to all the respondants.

It was actually a Carriage Return/Line Feed that I needed to delete from the file.

It looks like my paragraph mark is a decimal 10.

Here is the code from the WORD document:

TRN*2*HRR843137
.9~

The segment should read:
TRN*2*HRR843137.9~

The special character that...

I need a UNIX shellscript command that will remove the 'Paragraph' mark from a simple text file. The Paragraph mark I'm referring to is the special character you can see in a WORD documant (similar...

Trying treesloth's approach using:

awk '{gsub("MSH","\nMSH",$0) ; gsub("PID","\nPID",$0) ; gsub("PV1","\nPV1",$0) ; gsub("OBX","\nOBX",$0) ; gsub("ORC",\nORC",$0) ; gsub("OBR","\nOBR",$0) ;...

/usr/bin/sed:
$Revision: 80.5.1.1 $
PATCH_11_00: sed0.o sed1.o hpux_rel.o 00/11/27

Dear Corona,

Thanks for the help but my system does not support the -d option on the read command.

I think you are correct as to why the 'sed' command doesn't work. My HL7 file is almost 1.5...

Here is my situation...

System - HP UNIX (HP-UX hq5 B.11.00 U 9000/800 (td))

I have an HL7 (Health Level Seven) pipe-delimied file that does not have any carriage returns/line feeds. I need...