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# 1  
Old 08-07-2012
Question Replacing the delimeter with other delimeter
Hi Friends,

I have a file1.txt as below

Code:
29123973Ç2012-0529Ç35310124Ç000000000004762Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF
29123974Ç20120529Ç35310125Ç0000000000046770Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF
29123975Ç20120529Ç35310126Ç0000000000046804Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF
29123976Ç20120529Ç35310127Ç0000000000044820Ç00010Ç20Ç390ÇÇÇÇF

i have a file2.txt as below

Code:
29123973|2012-0529|35310124|00000000000469744762|00010|20|390|?|?|?|F
29123974|2012-0529|35310125|00000000000469744770|00010|20|390|?|?|?|F
29123975|2012-0529|35310126|00000000000469744804|00010|20|390|?|?|?|F
29123976|2012-0529|35310127|00000000000469744820|00010|20|390|?|?|?|F

i want to make file2.txt as file1.txt

here what i want to do is instead of '|' in file2.txt i want to replace it with 'Ç' and instead of '?|' i want to replace it with 'Ç'

i have used sed command to sustitute '|' with 'Ç' but i want to replace the '?|' it with 'Ç' please help.
# 2  
Old 08-07-2012
Try:
Code:
perl -pe 's/\|\?/Ç/g;s/\|/Ç/g' file2.txt

Last edited by bartus11; 08-07-2012 at 03:51 AM..
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# 3  
Old 08-07-2012
Code:
perl -pe 's/\|/\307/g; s/\?//g;' file2.txt

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# 4  
Old 08-07-2012
@bartus11,@itkamaraj Thanks for the reply.. it works as expected Smilie
# 5  
Old 08-07-2012
Shorter:
Code:
perl -pe 's/\|\??/Ç/g' file2.txt

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