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Old 09-03-2013
Replace Delimiters with Space
Hi All,
How to Replace the delimiter for a particular field. I have used awk to replace the field values based on the position, but I tried to remove/replace delimiters with space on particular positions.

I tried tr command with combination of awk not sure if this is the correct way, but I am not getting the required output. Is there any other way we can achieve this.

Code:
Sample text 1.

Data| 12345|U|76834

I want to replace the second and fourth pipe delimiter with space

Regards,
Mora.
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Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-03-2013 at 10:28 PM.. Reason: Change HTML tags to CODE tags.
# 2  
Old 09-03-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by mora
Hi All,
How to Replace the delimiter for a particular field. I have used awk to replace the field values based on the position, but I tried to remove/replace delimiters with space on particular positions.

I tried tr command with combination of awk not sure if this is the correct way, but I am not getting the required output. Is there any other way we can achieve this.

Code:
Sample text 1.

Data| 12345|U|76834

I want to replace the second and fourth pipe delimiter with space

Regards,
Mora.
Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Use CODE tags; not HTML tags to display sample input, output, and code samples.
I'm confused. You have 3 pipe delimiters and you want to change the 2nd and 4th???

Do all input lines have the same number of pipe delimiters?

Please show us sample input that matches your description of what you want to do AND show us sample output corresponding to that input.
# 3  
Old 09-03-2013
Hi ,

Sorry for the confusion. Below is my sample source data and expected output.

Source Data
HTML Code:
Data| 12345|U|76834|123
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |0
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |1
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |2
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |3
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |4
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |5

Expected Output

HTML Code:
Data| 12345U|76834123
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |0
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |1
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |2
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |3
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |4
Xyz|123| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |5
Regards,
Mora.
# 4  
Old 09-04-2013
Do you want to do this only in the header line of the file? If yes, then below command would work.

Code:
awk -F"|" '(NR==1){print $1 FS $2 $3 FS $4 $5;next} 1' filename

 
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