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Old 03-18-2010
Change date format

Hi guys,
I have a text file with lots of lines like this:

MCOGT23R27815 27/07/07 27/05/09
SO733AM0235 30/11/07 30/11/10
NL123403N 04/03/08 04/03/11
0747AM7474 04/04/08 04/04/11

I want to change each line so the date format looks like this:

MCOGT23R27815 07/07/27 09/05/27
SO733AM0235 07/11/30 10/11/30
NL123403N 08/03/04 11/03/04
0747AM7474 08/04/04 11/04/04

Thanks..
note:this is on a Solaris10 system
Tornado
# 2  
Old 03-18-2010
Post witdrawn.
# 3  
Old 03-18-2010
Code:
$ 
$ cat -n f7
     1  MCOGT23R27815 27/07/07 27/05/09
     2  SO733AM0235 30/11/07 30/11/10
     3  NL123403N 04/03/08 04/03/11
     4  0747AM7474 04/04/08 04/04/11
$ 
$ perl -lne 'chomp; @x=split/[ \/]/; print "$x[0] $x[3]/$x[2]/$x[1] $x[6]/$x[5]/$x[4]"' f7
MCOGT23R27815 07/07/27 09/05/27
SO733AM0235 07/11/30 10/11/30
NL123403N 08/03/04 11/03/04
0747AM7474 08/04/04 11/04/04
$

tyler_durden
# 4  
Old 03-18-2010
Thanks for that.
One thing I forgot to mention is that the delimiter is not a space, it is a tab
Tornado
# 5  
Old 03-18-2010
Code:
perl -ple 's|(^\S+\s+)(\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{2}\s+)(\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{2})|\1\3/\2/\4\6/\5/\7|;' yourfile

For a tab:

Code:
perl -ple 's|(^\S+\t)(\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{2}\t)(\d{2})/(\d{2})/(\d{2})|\1\3/\2/\4\6/\5/\7|;' yourfile


Last edited by drewk; 03-18-2010 at 08:40 PM..
# 6  
Old 03-18-2010
Thanks for the help guys, I have it working in my script now.
Tornado
# 7  
Old 03-18-2010
Code:
awk -F "\t|\/" '{printf "%s\t%s\/%s\/%s\t%s\/%s\/%s\n",$1,$4,$3,$2,$7,$6,$5}' urfile

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