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Old 12-06-2011
cutting long text by special char around 100 byte and newline
Regard,

How can i cut the text by special char(|) around 100 byte
and write the other of the text at newline using Perl.

2|01|2059140001|34232883774|504106542|2733|2127292||55197897292|||||177011612201|87829918247|2011112 7|0|0|0|295438|251|573|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|54630|45890|93609|0|0|0|295330|0|0|||0

Thanks.
Last edited by Shawn, Lee; 12-07-2011 at 12:03 AM..
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Old 12-06-2011
Try this...
Code:
awk -F'|' '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){s+=length($i)+1;if(s<=100){printf $i OFS}else{print $i OFS;s=0}}printf"\n"}' 
OFS='|' input_file

--ahamed
Last edited by ahamed101; 12-07-2011 at 05:12 AM..
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Old 12-07-2011
Code:
$ split -b 100 infile ; cat xa*

Then remove the temporarily created files ..
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Old 12-07-2011
Code:
# ./justdoit_sp infile
2|01|2059140001|34232883774|504106542|2733|2127292||55197897292|||||177011612201|87829918247|2011112
 7|0|0|0|295438|251|573|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|54630|45890|93609|0|0|0|295330|0|0|||0

Code:
 ## code ##
l=100;for((i=1;i<=$(wc -c <$1);i=i+100)) ; do
l=$(($i+$l));cut -c${i}-$l $1 ;done

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