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# 1  
Old 09-29-2009
How to convert a column to last five digits
Hi

Suppose I have a input.csv file like this

Fort, 2034440-3333
Honda, b293489289
Toyota, 23423000


How to convert the second column to the following format, there are only two cases:
a.if the last five character is a hyphen plus four numeric digit, keep the the last five digits before the hypen as well as everything after hyphen (including hyphen).
b. if the last five character doesn't contain a hyphen, keep the last five digits.

so the output.csv is:

Fort, 34440-3333
Honda, 89289
Toyota, 23000

Thanks, I guess this will be done in awk but I have no idea how to do it.
# 2  
Old 09-29-2009
Code:
$ 
$ cat f1
Fort, 2034440-3333
Honda, b293489289
Toyota, 23423000
$ 
$ perl -lne '/^(.*?, )(.*?)((\d|-)\d{4})$/ && print $1,substr($3,0,1) eq "-" ? substr($2,-5):"",$3' f1
Fort, 34440-3333
Honda, 89289
Toyota, 23000
$ 
$

tyler_durden
# 3  
Old 09-29-2009
Code:
 
sed 's/[[:alnum:]]*\([0-9]\{5\}\)$/\1/; s/[[:alnum:]]*\([0-9]\{5\}-[0-9]\{4\}\)$/\1/' myfile

# 4  
Old 09-29-2009
Or awk , just shorter Smilie
Code:
awk '{$2=($2~/-/)?substr($2,length($2)-9):substr($2,length($2)-4)}1' file

# 5  
Old 09-30-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by danmero
Or awk , just shorter Smilie
Code:
awk '{$2=($2~/-/)?substr($2,length($2)-9):substr($2,length($2)-4)}1' file


wow dan, that's amazing, would you mind explain a bit on how this works?
what is the ? symbol do?
what is the ($2~/-/) do?
what is the }1 in the end do?
# 6  
Old 09-30-2009
Another one:

Code:
perl -pe's/[^,]*(\d{5}(-\d+)?)$/$1/' infile

Or:

Code:
sed  's/[^,]*\([0-9]\{5\}\(-[0-9]*\)\{,1\}\)$/\1/' infile

Last edited by radoulov; 09-30-2009 at 02:59 PM..
# 7  
Old 09-30-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by grossgermany
wow dan, that's amazing, would you mind explain a bit on how this works?
what is the ? symbol do?
what is the ($2~/-/) do?
what is the }1 in the end do?
It likes to use "if else" in awk, but shorter.

Code:
awk '{if ($2~/-/) {print $1 substr($2,length($2)-9)} else {print $1 substr($2,length($2)-4)}}' urfile

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