On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 01:33:19PM +0000, hrishy wrote:
> Is there anyway to convert a fix width file containing
> records to a tab deleimited file..
Yes - that's easy enough with Perl or even awk.
> somthing like this
>> input
>> 1helloworld100
> 2helloworld300
> 13hello 400
> 4world 500
> 5hw 700
>> output
>> 1 helloworld 100
> 2 helloworld 300
> 13 helloworld 400
That's a whole different ballgame however, because the example you gave
isn't fixed width - the line beginning 13 doesn't match the others, and 13
has hello in the input but helloworld in the output. If the real file is
like that, Perl could handle it quite easily (except the hello -> helloworld
bit) by using regex but perhaps there's something else you're not telling us ?
Niall
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