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Old 01-17-2011
Network script to delete one digit.

Hi User,

I have a text file with a lot of customer records (over 10,000). Each record contained one field called "charge" and it must start with some space (each record may have 15 space, 17 spece, 9 space,etc, then start with <charge> and end with </charge>, in between is a value.

How can I delete the value if more than 1 digit?
For example:
Code:
record 1
                          <charge>0</charge>
output:
                          <charge>0</charge>

record 2:
                       <charge>8431</charge>
output:
                       <charge>843</charge>
record 3:
                           <charge>19</charge>
output:
                           <charge>1</charge>

Please help!

Many Thx!!
Smilie
Jason

Last edited by Scott; 01-17-2011 at 07:04 AM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 01-17-2011
Pls provide an expected output for above input.
# 3  
Old 01-17-2011
Try this:
Code:
awk -F\> '
/<charge>/{
  $2=sprintf("%d</charge>",int($2)>9?int($2)/10 :$2)
}
1' OFS=">" file

# 4  
Old 01-17-2011
Code:
sed 's|\(<charge>[0-9][0-9]*\)[0-9]\(</charge>\)|\1\2|' file

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