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Old 07-24-2011
Help in printing out information
Hello everyone, I got a small question.
Can I ask if there is any way to shorten the codes at the bottom cuz it looks abit messy.

My Text file contain.. With ":" as a delimiter
Little Prince:The Prince:15.00:188:9
Lord of The Ring:Johnny Dept:56.80:100:38

At the end of the day my output will be..
Little Prince, The Prince, $15.00, 188, 9

Yes its abit messed up I know!! Smilie

Code:
echo "`grep "$title" book.txt | cut -d: -f1`, `grep "$title"  book.txt | cut -d: -f2`, $`grep "$title" book.txt | cut -d: -f3`, `grep  "$title" book.txt | cut -d: -f4`, `grep "$title" book.txt | cut -d:  -f5`"

# 2  
Old 07-24-2011
Code:
awk -F: -vOFS=", " -vt="$title" '$0~t{$3="$"$3;print}' book.txt

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# 3  
Old 07-24-2011
Thank You sir!!
It's amazing how this one sentence can work compared to the C++ I've learned.
If you dun mind can explain to me how it works? So I will be able to make full use of it for future use.
# 4  
Old 07-24-2011
awk -F: set field separator to ":"
-vOFS=", " set output field separator to ", "
-vt="$title" set AWK's variable "t" to the value of shell's variable "$title"
'$0~t match current line against variable "t"
{$3="$"$3;print}' if match is successful, attach "$" sign in front of third field and print whole line
book.txt process file book.txt
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# 5  
Old 07-24-2011
Awesome great help!! Smilie
# 6  
Old 07-25-2011
One way through Sed..
Code:
TITLE="Prince"
sed -n '/'"$TITLE"'/{s/:\([0-9]\)/:$\1/;s/:/,/gp}' inputfile

# 7  
Old 07-26-2011
michaelrozar17 can i ask you about your code?? i dont understand thank
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