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# 15  
Old 05-06-2011
Thanks buddy...it works ..One more question is Since you have hard-coded the column widths at 24,73,82,87,121 characters (sed 's/./,/24;s/./,/73;s/./,/81;s/./,/87;s/./,/121;s/ *, */,/g' fixedinputfile >output.csv
). The client wants instead of hard coding the column widths as they are not fixed .he has given the hint stating that (
----------------------- ------------------------------------------------ ------- ----- --------------------------------- ----------------------------------------


) in second line of input file .and asked to
generate variables 1 to 6 = field 1 colunm width, field 2 column width, etc then use these to divide each row of data. could any please help on this..
# 16  
Old 05-06-2011
Could you please upload the input file ?
so we can provide a more accurate answer.
# 17  
Old 05-06-2011
INput file is already in this thread provided firstly ., again iam providingthe input file..request your help on this

Input file (each line is separaed by spaces )given below:



Code:
Name Domain Contact Phone Email Location----------------------- ------------------------------------------------ ------- ----- --------------------------------- ----------------------------------------clients / 5fdf97049abdd582976d954bba8ff256c4beedd8GEN-I / Service ProviderMC_RETIRED / acb53a6470ba5fdd6efc93a0d7228e9e014a199eREPLICATE / 5cf5275db7ceb0a7c8e29c7d66fd548f61ced14dCUSTOMER_01 /GEN-I <<Cust01 PARTY NUMBER>>CUSTOMER_02 /GEN-I <<Cust02 PARTY NUMBER>>RCB_INSTANCE_01 /GEN-I/CUSTOMER_01 "Product Instance 01 Description" <<Cust01_Inst01 PRODUCT ID>>RCB_INSTANCE_02 /GEN-I/CUSTOMER_01 "Product Instance 02 Description" <<Cust01_Inst02 PRODUCT ID>>RCB_INSTANCE_01 /GEN-I/CUSTOMER_02 "Product Instance 01 Description" <<Cust02_Inst01 PRODUCT ID>>wn1naeavu101.sdp.net.nz /REPLICATE 1eb4ad6f161e2be6644c13270adaa8dc7e7aa6a8clients /REPLICATE/wn1naeavu101.sdp.net.nz d93a694ed05147f8f9895ffa57fb91a0b15ed25dGEN-I /REPLICATE/wn1naeavu101.sdp.net.nz a4af9e4cc65ba65550b3365759280cf1197cb7daMC_RETIRED /REPLICATE/wn1naeavu101.sdp.net.nz 892e8133bb46f16caeb4667811457e5a9126838cREPLICATE /REPLICATE/wn1naeavu101.sdp.net.nz b983f7c9a69545b4f0a63a30f28447279a4524c2WLGtest /REPLICATE/wn1naeavu101.sdp.net.nz/GEN-I 4d6c41eb132caae70e8a9f990201e5c83c1104b5RCB_INSTANCE_01 /REPLICATE/wn1naeavu101.sdp.net.nz/GEN-I/CUSTOMER_02 0aec9c024ae8c9b60a81a371980e58be0eb2f27eRCB_INSTANCE_02 /REPLICATE/wn1naeavu101.sdp.net.nz/GEN-I/CUSTOMER_03 95e059107f165bb603aabae42b59c8f51e64e855
# 18  
Old 05-06-2011
I meant : could you provide it in attachement

Because i suspect the one displayed in the thread to have been made inconsistent by some copy/paste operations.
# 19  
Old 05-06-2011
input file attached
input file attached
input file.txt (3.0 KB) 
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