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Hi, Now I got a new problem. If the file is small this is working fine. But If I get all the data from production, its not working.
There are just 1300 records that get loaded into this flat file...

Oh! WAIT!! Now I got it... I should not replace ctrlC with control c character. Silly me!!! :) AWESOME! AWESOME!! THANKS THANKS THANKS...THANKS A TON!!

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nawk -f char.awk myFile

nawk is not recognized so I replaced with gawk or awk

char.awk:
BEGIN {
FS=OFS="|"
ctrlC=sprintf("%c", 003)
}
{
sub("^[|]","")
sub(ctrlC "$","")
...

BEGIN {
FS=OFS="|"
^C=sprintf("%c", 003)
}
{
sub("^[|]","")
sub(^C "$","")
while (n=index($0, ^C))
$0=substr($0, 1, n-1) ORS $1 OFS substr($0, n+1)
print
}


gawk -f...

It is throwing the following error with both awk and gawk. Is it unix code only? Sorry if the question sounds stupid! I am wondering if it is c++ code or unix code.

awk: char.awk:3: ...

Hi, Can you please explain me the code? When I wrote this code, and give the nawk command on command line it is saying "command not found"
The code doesn't seem to be unix or linux code! I am not...

But that is not working.. i can post some sample data for you..

|111111111|
|222222222|1292251978 Prad Bu Development^C
|333333333|
|444444444|1294070403 Joe De Pete Keny is currently testing...

hi, thanks for the reply, actually, i did not understand the full command. I am sorry!
But i tried to give this command on the command line.. it did not work. I would appreciate in your further...

Hi, I have a linux file that has data like this..
REQUEST_ID|text^Ctext^Ctext^C
REQUEST_ID|text^Ctext^C
REQUEST_ID|
REQUEST_ID|
REQUEST_ID|text^Ctext^Ctext^Ctext^Ctext^Ctext^C....
Where ever I...