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08-12-2009, 02:17 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: May 2007
Location: india
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 4
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Count commas in header and append as many missing from the lines underneath
I have a data file like this -
A,B,C,D,E,
1,2,3,4,5,
1,2,3
1,2,3,4
1,2,3,4,5,
So, the header record is the perfect record. The first record after that is also the perfect record.
The next 2 records are not.
What i have been trying to unsuccessfully do through a script is that when I run the script, my output should look like this -
A,B,C,D,E,
1,2,3,4,5,
1,2,3,,,
1,2,3,4,,
1,2,3,4,5,
It's like the difference in number of commas are appended to the lines which do not have exact number of commas as that of the header.
Please try and give me the ideas or if anyone could possibly write a code snippet and tell me.
Thanks,
Ak
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08-12-2009, 06:05 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2009
Distribution: slackware64-15.0
Posts: 546
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if you have this already in a file, say input.txt
then:
sed 's?^[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*$?&,,?' input.txt | \
sed 's?^[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*$?&,,,?' | \
sed 's?^[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*$?&,,,?'
if you got it from stdout, you can just pipe the result:
... | \
sed 's?^[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*$?&,,?' | \
sed 's?^[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*$?&,,,?' | \
sed 's?^[^,]*,[^,]*,[^,]*$?&,,,?'
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