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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:03:45 +0100
From: F.Xavier Noria <fxn@isoco.com>
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Subject: Re: Text editiing.... possibility for perl?
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:17:46 -0500
Christopher Weimann <cweimann@k12hq.com> wrote:


: awk -F, '{ print $1"-"$2"\t"$3"\t"$4"\t"$5"."$6"."$7"."$8 }' infile > outfile

Ah, cleaner. In Perl the analogous one liner would be

   perl -nlaF, -e 'print "$F[0]-$F[1]\t$F[2]\t$F[3]\t$F[4].$F[5].$F[6].$F[7]"' infile > outfile

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