if characters from positions 7-15 are matching 211-219 then replace
Script for if characters from positions 7-15 are matching with characters from position 211-219 then replace all char from 211-219 with 9 space.
Total length of record is 420. Here is the specification of the data in file.
Any help on this will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Last edited by lancesunny; 10-03-2012 at 11:23 AM..
Thanks rdrtx1.
I will test your solution tomorrow and let you know.
Thanks for your time and help regarding this.
---------- Post updated 10-03-12 at 10:21 AM ---------- Previous update was 10-02-12 at 10:32 PM ----------
Thanks for you help rdrtx1.
I am getting following error when i run it
$ awk -f { str1=substr($0,1,6); str2=substr($0,7,9); str3=substr($0,16,211-16); str4=substr($0,211,9); str5=substr($0,220); if (str2 == str4) gsub(".", " ", str4); print str1 str2 str3 str4 str5; } input.dat > output.dat
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
---------- Post updated at 10:53 AM ---------- Previous update was at 10:21 AM ----------
Thanks you all for you help & time on this one.
Here is the code which worked fine.
Thanks
-LanceSunny
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