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Old 09-10-2009
Editing Commas in a textfile using sed
Hi guys
task removing the last commas of 5th and 6th columns. The bug in the script is causing effect because of whitespaces around commas. I tried to delete white spaces first and running the above script. but still some where getting the results wrong.

I already have a script to do this task but somewhere bug located in the script. Could please debug it. Thanx

script

Code:
sed -e 's/,[^0-9]//g' -e 's/,$//g' file_name

input
Code:
 
7829885 7831552 + 1    1667,               0,
35934936 35937087 - 2  1281,870,       0,1281,
35934936 35937087 - 2  1281, 870,      0 ,1281 ,
35934936 35937087 - 2  1281 , 870 ,    0, 1281 ,

output should be like this
Code:
 
7829885 7831552 + 1 1667 0
35934936 35937087 - 2 1281,870   0,1281
35934936 35937087 - 2 1281,870   0,1281
35934936 35937087 - 2 1281,870   0,1281

Last edited by repinementer; 09-10-2009 at 09:44 AM..
# 2  
Old 09-10-2009
The first line of expected output does not follow the same rules for output as do lines 2 .. 4
It has all commas removed. Please clarify.
# 3  
Old 09-10-2009
Code:
The first line of expected output does not follow the same rules for output as do lines 2 .. 4
It has all commas removed. Please clarify.

Need to remove the commas of last number like 870 in the 5th column or 1281 in the 6th column. other commas have to stay as it is.
# 4  
Old 09-10-2009
somewhat ugly:
Code:
sed 's/ *, */,/g;s/,$//;s/,/ /2;s/,/ /3;/+/s/,/ /1' myFile

# 5  
Old 09-10-2009
Thanx for effort even though its ugly
What if the it not just about 5th and 6th columns. If they happen to appear in 7th and 8th columns is the same code applies?

---------- Post updated at 05:56 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:53 AM ----------

I think its working perfect. If you explain the code that really helpful to me and others so that we could play with the script for other requirements.
Thanx
# 6  
Old 09-10-2009
Code:
s/ *, */,/g
squish all '<space>,<space>' to ','

Code:
s/,$//
remove all trailing ',' from end of lines

Code:
s/,/ /2
substitute the SECOND occurrence of ',' with '<space>'

Code:
s/,/ /3
substitute the THIRD occurrence of ',' with '<space>'

Code:
/+/s/,/ /1
on all the lines having '+', substitute the FIRST occurrence of ',' with '<space>'

# 7  
Old 09-10-2009
Hey I have just seen your post.Thanx for your valuable time
You are mentioning 1st and sec occurrences...
The column may be contain so many numbers with commas. still does it work for all numbers??
like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and so on like in those columns I specified before?

I tried a sample its working fine for multiple numbers with commas also. I think its fine. What do you say?
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