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Old 11-08-2010
substitute comma
Hi all

I have data like in a file test"

Code:
'123,234,456'

I want to relace each occurence of , to ',' and put it in file "test"

After substitution file "test" should be like

Code:
'123','234','456'

I am using sed -i 's/,/','/g' test but its not working, Single quote is creating a problem. Can you help me to solve this.

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# 2  
Old 11-08-2010
Code:
 sed "s/,/'&'/g" test

# 3  
Old 11-08-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by vasuarjula
Code:
'123','234','456'

I am using sed -i 's/,/','/g' test but its not working, Single quote is creating a problem. Can you help me to solve this.
Code:
sed -i "s/,/','/g" test

# 4  
Old 11-11-2010
Thanks for the reply

Now I have another question.

If input is like 024,225, then output should be like 024\',\'225. I am having a hard time dealing with the escape character in it. Please reply
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Old 11-11-2010
Code:
echo '024,225' | sed "s/,/\\\'&\\\'/g"

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