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# 1  
Old 01-30-2014
Replace characters in string with awk gsub

Hi I have a source file that looks like
HTML Code:
a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,t,DISTI(USD),MSRP(USD),DIST(EUR),MSRP(EUR),EMEA-DISTI(USD),EMEA-MSRP(USD),GLOBAl-DISTI(USD),GLOBAL-MSRP(USD),DISTI(GBP), MSRP(GBP)
I want to basically change MSRP(USD) to MSRP,USD and DIST(EUR) to DIST,EUR and likewise for all i'm using the following command and able to replace "(" with , but not sure if i can use multiple replace inside gsub.

Code:
awk 'NR==1{for(i=10;i<=NF;i++){gsub(/\(/,OFS,$i);A[i]=$i}; print $A[i]}' OFS=',' FS=',' sample.txt

Thanks
# 2  
Old 01-30-2014
What output are you getting? gsub should replace every match it finds.

EDIT: Although since you're passing in one field at a time it will only ever find 1 match in this case anyway...
# 3  
Old 01-30-2014
Whether like this ?

Code:
$ cat file
a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,t,DISTI(USD),MSRP(USD),DIST(EUR),MSRP(EUR),EMEA-DISTI(USD),EMEA-MSRP(USD),GLOBAl-DISTI(USD),GLOBAL-MSRP(USD),DISTI(GBP), MSRP(GBP)

Code:
$ awk 'NR==1{gsub(/\(/,",");gsub(/\)/,x)}1' file

Resulting
Code:
a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,t,DISTI,USD,MSRP,USD,DIST,EUR,MSRP,EUR,EMEA-DISTI,USD,EMEA-MSRP,USD,GLOBAl-DISTI,USD,GLOBAL-MSRP,USD,DISTI,GBP, MSRP,GBP

# 4  
Old 01-30-2014
Need / insist on awk? If not, try
Code:
tr -s '()' ',' <file

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