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Old 12-08-2010
using SED or perl with / pattern
Dear Friends,

I have a flat file which has dates with / as separator.

I want to remove these dates by using perl or sed but due to / as separator I am unable to use perl or sed.

Please guide me to do the same

Thank you in advance.
Anushree.
# 2  
Old 12-08-2010
Hi.

Use another character:
Code:
sed "s#.....#......#g" file
or
sed "s!.....!......!g" file
etc...

# 3  
Old 12-08-2010
suppose you have date in HH/MM/YYYY format then use following

Code:
sed -e 's/..\/..\/....//g' file

R0H0N
# 4  
Old 12-08-2010
Hi Rohon,
Thank you for the quick and accurate help.
God bless you.
Anushree.
# 5  
Old 12-08-2010
Code:
perl -ne 's/\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{2,4}//g; print '  infile

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