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The explanation was a little bit off in that it re-splits the first part, b[0], into array a. Otherwise, another nice solution based on the presumed separation in the file.

Hi, runmeat6.

Thanks for noticing that. I have corrected the description ... cheers, drl

this was impossible to do in shell.. but hands off to drl that he did it in perl..
it was one of the toughest question that i found in this forum
great work guys..

Hi.

This is a little shorter than the perl solution:

Code:

#!/bin/bash -

# @(#) s1       Demonstrate split lines based on 8, 4 count spaces.

echo
echo "(Versions displayed with local utility \"version\")"
version >/dev/null 2>&1 && version "=o" $(_eat $0 $1) sed
set -o nounset
echo

FILE=${1-data1}

echo " Results:"
sed  \
-e 's/$/\n/' \
-e 's/        /\n/' \
-e 's/    /\n/' \
$FILE

exit 0

Producing (with a sample of the results):

Code:

% ./s1

(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
Linux 2.6.11-x1
GNU bash 2.05b.0
GNU sed version 4.1.2

 Results:
Aberdeen Centre [Blks A-U  & CP]
Aberdeen
The Ming An Ins Co (HK) Ltd

Academic Terrace [Towers 1-3]
"101 Pokfulam Road, HK"
Zurich Insurance Co Ltd

Academic Terrace [Car Park Portion]
"102 Pokfulam Road, HK"
Concord Insurance Co Ltd

   ...

Belvedere Garden (Phase 3) [PH03 Blks 1-7 & CP]
Tsuen Wan
The Ming An Ins Co (HK) Ltd

"Beneville [Blks 1-3, 5 & CP]"
"18 Tuen Kwai Road, Tuen Mun"
Sun Hung Kai Properites Ins Ltd

Beverly Garden  [Blks 1-10 & CP]
Tseung Kwan O
Allianz Insurance (HK) Ltd

The first substitution -- the one with the '$' -- may be removed; it is there for visual separation of the results ... cheers, drl

Hi drl,

I have tried both your perl and ksh script but it was not giving me the expected output. When I am running your both perl and ksh script the content of the file is splited as fields but it is not going for next line. For example:

The output what i am getting is when running the script is:

Yuk Ming Court [Blks A-C & CP] Tseung Kwan O Asia Insurance Co Ltd

Yuk Po Court [Blks A-H & CP] Sheung Shui "China BOCOM Insurance Co., Ltd."

Yukon Court [Blks & CP] 2-4 Conduit Road Concord Insurance Co Ltd

Yung Shing Court [Blks A-C & CP] Fanling ING General Insurance International


but i want output like:

Yuk Ming Court [Blks A-C & CP]
Tseung Kwan O
Asia Insurance Co Ltd

Yuk Po Court [Blks A-H & CP]
Sheung Shui
"China BOCOM Insurance Co., Ltd."

Yukon Court [Blks & CP]
2-4 Conduit Road
Concord Insurance Co Ltd

Yung Shing Court [Blks A-C & CP]
Fanling
ING General Insurance International


Please help me on this.

Thanks in advance.

Hi.

What kind of system are you running? Linux, AIX, HP-UX? ... cheers, drl

Hi drl,

I am working in Linux.