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Old 10-10-2012
[Solved] using sed delete a line from csv file based on specific data in two separate fields
Hello,
Smilie
I have a 12 column csv file. I wish to delete the entire line if column 7 = hello and column 12 = goodbye. I have tried everything that I can find in all of my ref books.

I know this does not work
Code:
/^[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]"hello",[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]"goodbye"/d

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Last edited by vbe; 10-10-2012 at 12:45 PM..
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Old 10-10-2012
Code:
sed '/^[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,"hello",[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,"goodbye"/d' infile

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Old 10-10-2012
Perfect. That worked.

Thanks
 
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