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# 8  
Old 04-29-2011
Input file pasted above :

First field (Name)=23 characters
second field(Domain) =60
Third field(contatc) =0
fourth field (Phone)=0
fifth field (Email)= 36
Sixth field =not needed as it is last field
# 9  
Old 04-29-2011
a field cannot be displayed length 0.
You first want have an initial file with fixed width fields (all lines must initially have the same length ), oherwise you cannot place the coma delimiter accuratly

Just like all these have a length of 9 :
Code:
"123   789"
"         "
"    56789"
"   45  89"
"12  5  8 "

In SQL when you do a
Code:
desc <table>

where <table> is the table from which the field's value have been picked up, what do you have ?

---------- Post updated at 08:01 PM ---------- Previous update was at 07:37 PM ----------

...by the way :

Code:
SQL> select ascii(',') from dual;

        44

SQL> select chr(44) from dual;

,

SQL>  select 'toto' || chr(44) || 'titi' from dual;

toto,titi

SQL>

Last edited by ctsgnb; 04-29-2011 at 02:51 PM..
# 10  
Old 04-29-2011
As vgetsh99 said, it's a fixed width file problem, that's what you should have looked for.

So, for you output try that :
Code:
 cut -c1-23,25-72,74-80,82-86,88-120,122-161 --output-delimiter=',' <fixedoutput.txt | sed 's/ *, */,/g'

# 11  
Old 04-29-2011
Code:
sed 's/./,/24;s/./,/73;s/./,/81;s/./,/87;s/./,/121;s/ *, */,/g' fixedinputfile >output.csv

# 12  
Old 04-29-2011
thanks it works ...

is it possible to do a error check if more than 5 commas in every line then throw a .err (example) or some error.
# 13  
Old 04-30-2011
is it possible to do a error check if more than 5 commas in every line then throw a .err (example) or some error.

awk -F, 'NF!=6{print "Error line " NR " : " $0}' youfile.csv
# 14  
Old 04-30-2011
In case all the spaces are replacing with commas, first try to compress the space
with the command "tr -s " " >inputfile then replace the single space with comma..
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