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Old 11-17-2011
embed a separator after each word in a text file
Folks,
can anyone throw a code snippet here to insert a comma " , " after each word in a line when doing a file read and output the delimited text to a file.

Appreciate your help

Venu
# 2  
Old 11-17-2011
depending on your definition of a 'word' - YMMV...
Code:
sed 's# +#,&#g' myFile

Last edited by vgersh99; 11-17-2011 at 03:22 PM..
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Old 11-17-2011
Here are a couple of Perl one-liners -

Code:
$
$ cat f41
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Mary had a little lamb.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
$
$
$ perl -plne 's/(\w+)/$1,/g' f41
The, quick, brown, fox, jumps, over, the, lazy, dog,.
Mary, had, a, little, lamb,.
Humpty, Dumpty, sat, on, a, wall,.
$
$
$ perl -plane '$_=join(", ",@F)' f41
The, quick, brown, fox, jumps, over, the, lazy, dog.
Mary, had, a, little, lamb.
Humpty, Dumpty, sat, on, a, wall.
$
$

As pointed out by vgersh99, you'll have to define the meaning of a "word".

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# 4  
Old 11-17-2011
for example
input file

line 1 : - An apple a day keeps a doctor away

line 2 :- Major league football


output file

line 1 :- An,Apple,a,day,keeps,a,doctor,away

line2 :- Major,league,football
# 5  
Old 11-17-2011
Code:
sed 's/ /,/g' file

# 6  
Old 11-17-2011
Is there a way we can do this without sed command....
# 7  
Old 11-17-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by venu
Is there a way we can do this without sed command....
Just wondering.... why?
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