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# 1  
Old 11-07-2009
Awk: Remove comma at the end of the string

Hi

i had String like

UID: ABC345QWE678GFK345SA90, LENGTH 32

when I used awk ' FS[" "], {print $1}' prints

ABC345QWE678GFK345SA90,

how can i getrid of that coma at the end of the string.

Thanks in advance..
# 2  
Old 11-07-2009
You awk example does not seem to work. Do you mean something like this:
Code:
$> echo "UID: ABC345QWE678GFK345SA90, LENGTH 32"|awk -F'[, ]' '{print $2}'
ABC345QWE678GFK345SA90

# 3  
Old 11-07-2009
Thanks for your reply.
I am using ksh.When i tried to use above awk command
its prints nothing blank screen appears.

Thanks.
# 4  
Old 11-08-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Reddy482
...
I am using ksh.When i tried to use above awk command
its prints nothing blank screen appears.
...
Did you run Scrutinizer's example exactly like he has posted ? i.e. did you put the echo <string> and the "|" on the left of the awk command ?

The example works for me in ksh. (May be better to show us what you tried, so that we are on the same page.)

tyler_durden
# 5  
Old 11-08-2009
I had a similar problem before. I used the replace function but you just replace it with nothing so the , gets removed.
# 6  
Old 11-08-2009
code
put "" instead of '' and try again and do't forget there is a space after the ,

Code:
gawk -F"[, ]" '{print $2}'  file.txt

BR
# 7  
Old 11-08-2009
Try:
Code:
echo "UID:  ABC345QWE678GFK345SA90, LENGTH 32"|awk -F'[, \t]*' '{print $2}'

instead..
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