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# 1  
Old 04-02-2008
how to convert Fixed length file to delimited file.
I have below fixed lenth file . I have to convert this to delimitted file.

File1.txt
Code:
E116005/29/19930E001E000
E12201/23/19940E001E003
E10406/4/19940E001E003

I want to convert this to :
Code:
E116,0,05/29/1993,0,E001,E000
E122,0,1/23/1994,0,E001,E003
E104,0,6/4/1994,0,E001,E003

I have a sample code ,below iam passing the ending position of each cloumn from other record.
Date is 3rd column,Iam considering date as '10 char' length & ending position to be '15'.So if
i have a date as '5/9/1993' we have to append '0' to date and month so that it will be '05/09/1993'

Code:
sed -e 's/./&,/4' 's/./&,/5' 's/./&,/15' 's/./&,/16' 's/./&,/20' 's/./&,/24'  File1.txt > delimited.csv

I need help .....please help me !!
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 04-02-2008 at 04:25 AM.. Reason: added code tags
# 2  
Old 04-02-2008
One way:

Code:
awk -F"/" ' {
s1=substr($1, 1, 4) "," substr($1, 5, 1) "," substr($1, 6)
s2=substr($3, 1, 4) "," substr($3, 5, 1) "," substr($3, 6, 4) "," substr($3, 10)
print s1 "/" $2 "/" s2}
'  File1.txt > delimited.csv

Regards
# 3  
Old 04-02-2008
Thanx Franklin.

why my code is not working ????? Can u please tell me .....

sed -e 's/./&,/4' 's/./&,/5' 's/./&,/15' 's/./&,/16' 's/./&,/20' 's/./&,/24' File1.txt > delimited.csv


where File1 is :

E116005/29/19930E001E000
E122001/23/19940E001E003
E104006/04/19940E001E003
# 4  
Old 04-02-2008
With gawk you can do :
Code:
awk -v FIELDWIDTHS='4 1 10 1 4 4' -v OFS=',' '{ $1=$1 ""; print }' inputfile

Jean-Pierre.
# 5  
Old 04-02-2008
It is not working ......
Can you please check & give exact code . ......

Iam new to unix .....
# 6  
Old 04-02-2008
The code works fine with gawk only :
Code:
$ cat gd.dat
E116005/29/19930E001E000
E122001/23/19940E001E003
E104006/04/19940E001E003
$ gawk -v FIELDWIDTHS='4 1 10 1 4 4' -v OFS=',' '{ $1=$1 ""; print }' gd.dat
E116,0,05/29/1993,0,E001,E000
E122,0,01/23/1994,0,E001,E003
E104,0,06/04/1994,0,E001,E003
$

With standard awk you can do :
Code:
$ cat gd.dat
E116005/29/19930E001E000
E122001/23/19940E001E003
E104006/04/19940E001E003
$ cat gd.sh
awk -v FIELDWIDTHS='4 1 10 1 4 4' -v OFS=',' '
   BEGIN {
      WidthsCount = split(FIELDWIDTHS, Widths);
   }
   {
      fixe = $0;
      pos  = 1;
      for (i=1; i<=WidthsCount; i++) {
         len = Widths[i];
         $i = substr(fixe, pos, len);
         pos += len;
      }
      print;
   }
    ' gd.dat
$ gd.sh
E116,0,05/29/1993,0,E001,E000
E122,0,01/23/1994,0,E001,E003
E104,0,06/04/1994,0,E001,E003
$

Jean-Pierre.
# 7  
Old 04-02-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by satyam_sat
sed -e 's/./&,/4' 's/./&,/5' 's/./&,/15' 's/./&,/16' 's/./&,/20' 's/./&,/24' File1.txt > delimited.csv


where File1 is :

E116005/29/19930E001E000
E122001/23/19940E001E003
E104006/04/19940E001E003
Try this one.
Code:
sed -e 's/./&,/4' -e 's/./&,/6' -e 's/./&,/17' -e 's/./&,/19' -e 's/./&,/24' File1.txt > delimited.csv
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