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Old 10-10-2008
SH Script help. editing string
I have a string that looks like this

username|field1|field2|field3

the data has a delimiter of "|"
how can i edit field1, keeping the rest of the data the same
also how can i edit field2 and 3.
# 2  
Old 10-10-2008
edit in the sense you want to replace the first field with some other word keeping other intact??
if so use awk
Code:
echo "username|field1|field2|field3"|awk -F\| '{print "word|"$2"|"$3"|"$4}'

output will be
word|field1|field2|field3
same way you can do your second question also
# 3  
Old 10-10-2008
> edit in the sense you want to replace the first field with some other word keeping other intact??
yup that was what i meant



that is very simple to understand.
thank you very much
# 4  
Old 10-10-2008

No need for any external commands:

Code:
string="username|field1|field2|field3"
newfield1=something
newstring="$newfield1|${string#*|}"

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