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sub function
Silly me...i work on Win XP, MSDOS cmd shell with Gawk3.1.3 Tried your hint to work on cygwin and it works!(with your command: gawk '{sub(/,/,".")}1' 1.txt > 2.txt) What puzzle me is why is there a need for the extra 1 after }? Will work on the other problem. Thanks to both of you! -
sub function
Hi PHV 1. - gawk '{sub(/,/,".")}' 1.txt > 2.txt gawk: cmd. line:1: ^ invalid char ''' in expression Somehow my system doesnt allow me to use '. - gawk '{sub(/,/,".")}' 1.txt > 2.txt gawk: cmd. line:1:^ syntax error gawk: cmd. line:1: fatal: 0 is invalid as number of arguments for sub 2. I... -
sub function
Hi I'm trying to 1. Replace a comma with a full stop. Tried using gawk "sub(/,/,.)" 1.txt > 2.txt (failed) gawk "sub(/,/,test)" 1.txt > 2.txt (it only delete away the comma but it doesn't replace it with test) When I put numbers as replacement text, it works though. Can anyone assist? 2...
