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Old 04-13-2007
Conversion question about ksh
Hi all,

New to ksh and had a few questions to see if this is doable in ksh or if I am going to have to call out to a tcl procedure. I have an Ascii file I want to convert to hex then search and remove all hex chars '0A' and then convert back to Ascii. Here is an example of an Ascii file I am dealing with:

FHS|^~\&|SIS|MSAE|BAR|MSAE|200704101402
BHS|^~\&|SIS||||200704101402
MSH|^~\&|SIS|SAE|||20070302114940||DFT^P03|1092|D|2.2
EVN|P03|200703021149
PID|1||MC00319092|||||||||||||||003190921008
FT1|1|||20051227||CH|76010200|||1
MSH|^~\&|SIS|SAE|||20070302114940||DFT^P03|1092|D|2.2
EVN|P03|200703021149
PID|1||MC00319092|||||||||||||||003190921008
FT1|1|||20051227||CH|76010200|||1

Thanks for any input
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Old 04-13-2007
It is not that easy between ascii and hex in ksh. But your task is just:
Code:
/usr/bin/ksh
tr -d "
" < oldfile > newfile
exit 0

That is just a newline character in the double quotes.
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Old 04-13-2007
Thankyou Perderabo for all your input! That should solve my dilemma.
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