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Old 02-12-2008
Data re-arranging text in a file with AWK
Hi Gurus,

I have a text file that I want to process with the following structure;

Code:
4528788 Blah - Something
9341423 Text - Somethinghere
98792223,5546761 Some - More - Text
5119503,5159504,1234567 Text - More - Text
13459695 Stuff - Text Again
13526583 Junk - More Text Here
13595177 T.E.X.T - Here

And I want to reformat so it looks like this;

Code:
4528788,Blah - Something
9341423,Text - Somethinghere
98792223,Some - More - Text
5546761,Some - More - Text
5119503,Text - More - Text
5159504,Text - More - Text
1234567,Text - More - Text
13459695,Stuff - Text Again
13526583,Junk - More Text Here
13595177,T.E.X.T - Here

Any Ideas? Should I be using sed instead?!

th3g0bl1n
th3g0bl1n
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Old 02-12-2008
Code:
awk 'c=split($1,x,","){for(i=1;i<=c;i++){$1=x[i]",";print}}' filename

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.
 
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