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Old 01-10-2015
Moving fields
Hello
I have a file with this content
=============================================================
Code:
1,  Het Juvenalis dilemma,    Digital fortress,    1998
2,  Het Bernini mysterie,    Angels & demons,    2000
3,  De Delta deceptie,    Deception point,    2001
4,  De Da Vinci code,    The Da Vinci code,    2003
5,  Het verloren symbool,    The lost symbol,    2009

=============================================================
I want to move the third and the fourth field.
The third field must begin at character 30 and the fourth field must begin at character 70
Between the beginning of the record en the first character of every field, I need the same distance.
Maybe someone know a solution
Thanks anyway
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 01-10-2015 at 02:39 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 01-10-2015
may not be exactly what you want, but worth a try

Code:
cat yourfile | column -s "," -t

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# 3  
Old 01-10-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by thailand
Hello
I have a file with this content
=============================================================
Code:
1,  Het Juvenalis dilemma,    Digital fortress,    1998
2,  Het Bernini mysterie,    Angels & demons,    2000
3,  De Delta deceptie,    Deception point,    2001
4,  De Da Vinci code,    The Da Vinci code,    2003
5,  Het verloren symbool,    The lost symbol,    2009

=============================================================
I want to move the third and the fourth field.
The third field must begin at character 30 and the fourth field must begin at character 70
Between the beginning of the record en the first character of every field, I need the same distance.
Maybe someone know a solution
Thanks anyway
Hello thiland,

Could you please try following for same, let me know if this helps.
Code:
awk -F, '{printf"%s,%s,%30s,%70s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4}' OFS=, Input_file

Output will be as follows.
Code:
1,  Het Juvenalis dilemma,              Digital fortress,                                                                  1998
2,  Het Bernini mysterie,               Angels & demons,                                                                  2000
3,  De Delta deceptie,               Deception point,                                                                  2001
4,  De Da Vinci code,             The Da Vinci code,                                                                  2003
5,  Het verloren symbool,               The lost symbol,                                                                  2009

If it doesn't satisfy your requirements kindly show us the input and output you need it will help us to guide/advise you on same.


Thanks,
R. Singh
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thailand
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Old 01-10-2015
You could also try something like:
Code:
awk -F ', *' '{printf("%-4s%-25s%-40s%s\n", $1 ",", $2 ",", $3 ",", $4)}' file

If you want to try this on a Solaris/SunOS system, change awk to /usr/xpg4/bin/awk, /usr/xpg6/bin/awk, or nawk.

With your sample input file, it produces the output:
Code:
1,  Het Juvenalis dilemma,    Digital fortress,                       1998
2,  Het Bernini mysterie,     Angels & demons,                        2000
3,  De Delta deceptie,        Deception point,                        2001
4,  De Da Vinci code,         The Da Vinci code,                      2003
5,  Het verloren symbool,     The lost symbol,                        2009

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