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Thanks guys. printf worked.

I need to create a flat file with columns delimited by "\002" (octal 2)

I tried using the simple echo.


name="Adam Smith"
age=40
address="1 main st"
city="New York"
echo...

Yep. that did the job. Thanks for figuring it out.


awk 'BEGIN {FS=sprintf("%c",2)} {print $2}' sample

Chubler - I just tried the sprintf idea. It is not working too. somehow it is not recognizing \002 or 0x02 representation.

I even tried to print 0x02 into a file using below. the file does not...

Thanks. I am able to do it using Scrutinizer's first trick.

awk -F^B '{print $2}' infile

The second method using \002 did not work though.

Chuber_XL - Thanks. sprintf seems a brilliant...

Hello
I need to read the columns from a flat file delimited by Hex code X02.

The Sample file is
Red^B1000^BJohn
Blue^B2000^BSam
Green^B3000^BDan

Note: Hex code X02 shows as ^B in vi.
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