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Old 12-09-2011
Read from Multiple character delimited flat file
Hello Guys

I have a multiple character delimited flat file "|~|". when I tried to read the data the "|" character also coming

Example
I/P file
Code:
 
9882590|~|20111207|~|K03501000063005574033961|~|K|~|

Command to get the second column I used

Code:
 
 awk -F"|~|" ' {print $2}'  ff_CGS_0005_CGS300.dat

The result I am having

Code:
 
|20111207|

Can you please correct me to get the value without the pipe character
Thnx a lot!
# 2  
Old 12-09-2011
Code:
perl -F"\|~\|" -lane 'print "$F[1]"' ff_CGS_0005_CGS300.dat

# 3  
Old 12-09-2011
Hi,

You could also use

Code:
$echo "9882590|~|20111207|~|K03501000063005574033961|~|K|~|" | awk -v FS="|" '{print $3}'
20111207

Or you could change |~| to | then pass on to awk.

Code:
$echo "9882590|~|20111207|~|K03501000063005574033961|~|K|~|" | sed 's/|~|/|/g' | awk -v FS="|" '{print $2}'
20111207

After more searching.
Code:
$echo "9882590|~|20111207|~|K03501000063005574033961|~|K|~|" | awk -v FS="[|~]+" '{print $2}'
20111207

Last edited by ni2; 12-09-2011 at 03:39 AM.. Reason: Did more searching.
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