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Old 03-06-2012
How to cut by delimiter, and delimiter can be anything except numbers?
Hi all,

I have a number of strings like below:

Code:
//mnt/autocor/43°13'(33")W/[N]

and i'm trying to get the numbers in this string, for example
43[tab]13[tab]33[tab]

please help

thanks ahead
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Old 03-06-2012
You probably don't want to use cut, it's fast but inflexible (to the best of my knowledge you cant have a variable delimiter). try the following approach:
Code:
perl -e 'print join("\t",(split(/[^0-9]+/,$ARGV[0]))),"\n" ;' '//mnt/autocor/43°13(33")W/[N]'

ooops, re-read your question, the following puts a tab on the end of the line also
Code:
 perl -e 'print join("\t",(split(/[^0-9]+/,$ARGV[0])),"\n") ;' '//mnt/autocor/43°13(33")W/[N]'

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Old 03-06-2012
Code:
perl -ne 'while(/(\d+)/g){print "$1\t"}' inputfile

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Old 03-06-2012
Code:
~/unix.com$ awk -F'[^0-9]' '{s="";for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){if($i!="")s=s$i"\t"}print s}' file

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Old 03-06-2012
Code:
tr -cs '[:digit:]' '[\t*]'

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Old 03-06-2012
Someone, tell me what's wrong with this code, please?
Code:
awk -F'[^0-9]' '{s="";i=0;while(++i<=NF&&$i!="")s=s$i"\t"}$0=s' file

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Old 03-06-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by tukuyomi
Someone, tell me what's wrong with this code, please?
Code:
awk -F'[^0-9]' '{s="";i=0;while(++i<=NF&&$i!="")s=s$i"\t"}$0=s' file

The while loop will abort at the first empty field because $i != "" evaluates to false. With the sample data provided and with the field separator you're using (any non-digit), the comparision is false for $1 and the body of the loop never executes.

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Alister
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