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# 8  
Old 02-18-2010
Smilie

I don't think my original sed worked that great!

Code:
sed -E 's/(PID|PV1|...|...)/\
&/g' file1

But I just ran a test on a line with 7 million characters with no problems, so I imagine the limitations to which you refer are for old versions of sed (so it probably doesn't work on Solaris!!)

Edit: Completely over-looked (i.e. didn't see) first line of question : "System - HP UNIX (HP-UX hq5 B.11.00 U 9000/800 (td))". Smilie Sorry.
Last edited by Scott; 02-18-2010 at 05:48 PM..
# 9  
Old 02-18-2010
It should be straightforward with Perl.
# 10  
Old 02-18-2010
Code:

/usr/bin/sed:
$Revision: 80.5.1.1 $
PATCH_11_00: sed0.o sed1.o hpux_rel.o 00/11/27

# 11  
Old 02-18-2010
If you don't mind an amateurish attempt, how about something like:

Code:
awk '{gsub("MSH","\nMSH",$0) ; gsub("PID","\nPID",$0) ; gsub("PV1","\nPV1",$0) ; gsub("OBX","\nOBX",$0) ; print}' filename

Or, a little easier to expand as needed, perhaps:

Code:
awk 'BEGIN {str[1] = "MSH" ; str[2] = "PID" ; str[3] = "PV1" ; str[4] = "OBX"} \ 
{for (i = 1 ; i <= length(str) ; i++) {gsub(str[i],"\n"str[i],$0)}} \ 
END {print}' filename

Of course, that'll get very tedious depending on how many possible str values therer are...
# 12  
Old 02-18-2010
The first sed posted by scottn works on HPUX 11.00 for the sample file albeit with the trailing pipe character on all but the last record.
The later version with "-E" gives a syntax error.

Now we need the O/P to try it on a large file.

Knowing the Progress version would help. There are other approaches using a recent Progress 4GL.
# 13  
Old 02-18-2010
If I understood the problem correctly, this is something that should work in PHP:

PHP Code:
<?php
$data=file_get_contents('./your_data.txt');
$stuff=preg_replace("/\|([A-Z0-9]{3})/","|\n$1",$data);
print $stuff;
?>
Output on sample file:

Code:
MSH|data|data|data|data|data|data|data|
PID|data|data|data|data|
PV1|data|data|
OBX|data|data|...

# 14  
Old 02-19-2010
Trying treesloth's approach using:
Code:

awk '{gsub("MSH","\nMSH",$0) ; gsub("PID","\nPID",$0) ; gsub("PV1","\nPV1",$0) ; gsub("OBX","\nOBX",$0) ; gsub("ORC",\nORC",$0) ; gsub("OBR","\nOBR",$0) ;
gsub("NTE","\nNTE",$0) ; print}' /care/misc/rad_report

I get the error message:
Code:

syntax error The source line is 1.
The error context is
{gsub("MSH","\nMSH",$0) ; gsub("PID","\nPID",$0) ; gsub("PV1","\
nPV1",$0) ; gsub("OBX","\nOBX",$0) ; >>> gsub("ORC",\ <<< nORC",$0) ; gsub("OBR
","\nOBR",$0) ; gsub("NTE","\nNTE",$0) ; print}
awk: The statement cannot be correctly parsed.
The source line is 1.

My version of PROGRESS is 8.3B

Any other suggestions?

---------- Post updated at 02:06 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:49 PM ----------

I found the error in my previous code (missing ").

Now the error reads:

Code:

awk: Input line MSH|^~\&|HNAM|HNA|CL cannot be longer than 3,000 bytes.

Any other suggestions?
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