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Thanks Vryali, but as sometimes happens I discovered an answer whilst waiting for a reply... this also works:

sed 's/,\([0-9][0-9]*\),/,"\1",/g'

Hi, consider a file which has data such as

"random text",912345,"54","finish"
"random text",9991236745,"9954","finish"

I want to replace the numbers that don't have double quotes around them...

Hi,

Consider the data (FS = |):
1| England |end
2| New Zealand |end
3|Australia|end
4| Some Made Up Country |end
5| West Indies|end

I want the output to be (i.e. without the...

Hi,
I wanted to do a check of each record in file 1 against all the records in file 2 to find matches (or not)

so as sudo code would be something like


awk
'{
loop through each record of...

After having some issues around spaces and format I decided to try a basic approach, so I wrote an easy to read script. It may not be the most optimal but it does the job and is easy to maintain.
...

thanks for that, after your reply i did some further googling and found that \y works in place of \b in awk. I'm using this to match whole words...

so it matches good, but not gooddif (match($0,...

sorry for my denseness but how can i get it to work in the awk script?? the following doesnt seem to match the lineif ($0 ~ /^.*\b(good|two|three)\b.*$/) { print "match" }

Hi

Consider the file

this is a good line

when running
grep '\b(good|great|excellent)\b' file5
I expect it to match the line but it doesn't... what am i doing wrong??
(ultimately this...

Hi consider the source file

R|field1|field2

using the print statement in awk prints it as
R field1 field2

Is there an easier way to print the whole line in its original format (i.e. with |...

My initial data was just an example; the data could be:
R|This is line 1 and so
it continues|next filesd
and more| still
R|This is line2

Ahmad's gawk line works for this aswell

i.e. gives...

great stuff that works a treat


i was gonna put a space at the beginning of each line that doesnt start with R by the following:
sed -i '/R|/!s/^/ /' file4

then run the original solution,...

I tried that... but that also gives a space at the beginning of the line
i.e.
. R|This is Line1
instead of
R|This is Line1

thanks, but that still leaves me the problem of spaces; so
R|This is
Line1
changes to
R|This isLine1

but I want
R|This is Line1

any ideas??

I guyss I could use sed to do a...

nice... thank you very much

now i'll try and figure out how that works!!

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I've been playing around...

I'm looking for a way to join lines in a file; e.,g consider the following
R|This is line 1
R|This is
line 2
R|This is line 3
R|This is line 4
R|This is
line 5

what i want to end up with...