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Old 03-12-2013
Need to replace value of a column w.r.t to another column
cat file
Code:
D|NBI03359|CA112540|CABREG|CA|AM|1125480|CN-CA112540|ATTC||684916|98723|CA|UB|
D|NBI03359|CA3729VP|CABCAL|CA|ZA|3729890|CN-CA3729VP|ATTC||684916|98723|CA|UB|

I have file like this

I need to replace the 15th column with the value 123 if the value of the 6th column ='AM'
Code:
nawk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS="|"} $6=='AM'{$15=123} {print}' file

I tried like this but not working

My expected result is
Code:
D|NBI03359|CA112540|CABREG|CA|AM|1125480|CN-CA112540|ATTC||684916|98723|CA|UB|123
D|NBI03359|CA3729VP|CABCAL|CA|ZA|3729890|CN-CA3729VP|ATTC||684916|98723|CA|UB|


Can anyone help here please
Last edited by Franklin52; 03-12-2013 at 04:02 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
# 2  
Old 03-12-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by ginrkf
nawk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS="|"} $6=='AM'{$15=123} {print}' file
Just replace those single quotes with double quotes..

Code:
nawk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS="|"} $6=="AM"{$15=123} {print}' file

Also can be written as
Code:
nawk 'BEGIN{OFS=FS="|"} $6=="AM"{$15=123}1' file

# 3  
Old 03-12-2013
or like this
Code:
nawk -F\| '$6=="AM"{$15=123}1' OFS=\| file

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