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# 1  
Old 04-03-2007
Error Substitution problem.
Hi,
Just need some help in this.
Suppose there is one file a.txt, which contains this data:

"25187","00000022","00",28-MAR-2007,"" ,"D",-000001550,+0000000000,"C", ,+000000000,+000000000,000000000,"2","" ,29-MAR-2007
613TB.STEXTRF1
"25187","0000004H","00",29-MAR-2007,"" ,"H",-001769013,+0000000000,"C", ,+000000000,+000000000,000000000,"2","" ,29-MAR-2007

I need to substitute the value in the last value i.e. 29-MAR-2007 of every row with 02-APR-2007 so that it becomes
"25187","00000022","00",28-MAR-2007,"" ,"D",-000001550,+0000000000,"C", ,+000000000,+000000000,000000000,"2","" ,02-APR2007
613TB.STEXTRF1
"25187","0000004H","00",29-MAR-2007,"" ,"H",-001769013,+0000000000,"C", ,+000000000,+000000000,000000000,"2","" ,02-APR-2007

how can I do it in awk.
Please help.

Regards
Ashu
# 2  
Old 04-03-2007
Code:
awk -F"," -v OFS="," ' { sub("29-MAR-2007","02-APR-2007",$NF); $1=$1; print } ' file

Last edited by anbu23; 04-03-2007 at 08:22 AM..
# 3  
Old 04-03-2007
Thanks a lot.
# 4  
Old 04-03-2007
in perl:
Code:
$ perl -pi -e 's/29-MAR-2007(\s+)$/02-APR-2007\1/' filename

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