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Old 02-16-2012
FWIW - solaris awks and nawk do not support the asort() function. That is a gawk thing (GNU awk). You can install gawk from

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# 9  
Old 02-16-2012
Code:
$ perl -F"," -lane 'chomp($F[1]);$F[1]=~s/^ //;@x=sort (split/\|/,$F[1]);print "$F[0], ",join("\|",@x)' inputfile
1, A|B|C|D
2, A|B|C
3, A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H
4, A|B|C|D|F

# 10  
Old 02-16-2012
Yes you are right this will not work on solaris

awk '{ split($2, A, "|");asort(A);$2="";for(N=1; A[N]; N++) $2=$2"|"A[N];print $1 " " substr($2, 2) }' test123.dat

awk: illegal reference to array A
record number 1
# 11  
Old 02-16-2012
cross-posted thread thread merged.
# 12  
Old 02-16-2012
sorry for the repost as this is my first post.
Perl solution seems to work but i can not use due to limitation on my server.
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