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# 8  
Old 08-18-2009
One way of doing it with Perl:

Code:
perl -lne 'chomp; /\|/ && push @x,$_;
           if(/^$/ && defined @x){print join ",",@x; @x=()}
           END{print join ",",@x}' file

tyler_durden
# 9  
Old 08-18-2009
Thanks everyone! jp's does exactly what I want!

Thanks again!
Last edited by LoveSquid; 08-18-2009 at 09:49 PM.. Reason: SOLVED!!
# 10  
Old 08-20-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by LoveSquid
jp2542a: Thanks, I will give that a try this morning and see what results I get. I'm not familiar with awk, but plan to learn it so this may be an opportunity.


edidataguy: Thanks for pointing that out! The only constant is that all will begin with UR and all will end with XD and then an empty (after removal of ^M) line. This is obviously generated on a Win machine, buy I am working entirely on Linux desktop and a Linux server.

That said, it may help if I state that I will then use this to insert and delete records in a MySQL database and run as a cron job. Thanks for the help!
Code:
grep '|' reorder.txt | tr '\n' ',' | sed -e 's/,\(UR|\)/\n\1/g; s/,$//'

There are a few pit falls in this. Assumed there will be no ",UR|" anywhere else in the data.
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