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Old 07-26-2010
LENGTH? REPLACE? in sed? That looks like awk.

I think this will work.
Code:
sed -i "/INTO test2 / s/\(([^,]*,[^,]*,\)\([^,)]*\)/\1'\\n\2'/" file

\(([^,]*,[^,]*,\) captures a paren, (, two fields and the commas that follow each,
\([^,)]*\) captures the third field, but stops before the delimiting comma or paren,
\1 prints what was captured in the first parens,
'\\n\2' prints the third field, with additions.
# 9  
Old 07-27-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by KenJackson
LENGTH? REPLACE? in sed? That looks like awk.
It has nothing to do with awk Smilie, the sed command substitutes:
Code:
LENGTH(REPLACE(c, ' ', ''))

with:
Code:
LENGTH(REPLACE(c, '\\\n ', ''))

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