How to remove slashes in a string

[johandepauw]

How can I remove all slashes within a string ?

For example :
1/23456/78/999 needs to become
12345678999

 

[feherke]

Hi

gsub(/\//,"")

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[johandepauw]

To be more precise, I have a field called aanvr_arts_rizivnr within my script. It's my aim to alter the contents of aanvr_arts_rizivnr, so that all slashes within this field are removed. And then I want to write the altered contents to an output file called outfileadr.

I've tried it as follows, but this doesn't give the expected result :

aanvr_arts_rizivnr = gsub(/\//,"",aanvr_arts_rizivnr)
print aanvr_arts_rizivnr >> outfileadr

What am I doing wrong ? I'm new to akw, so excuse me if my question appears to be silly.

 

[feherke]

Hi

I have no idea what you want to do there.

[blue]master #[/blue] cat inputfile 
1/23456/78/999

[blue]master #[/blue] awk '{gsub(/\//,"")}1' inputfile > outputfile

[blue]master #[/blue] cat outputfile 
12345678999

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[PHV]

Replace this:
aanvr_arts_rizivnr = gsub(/\//,"",aanvr_arts_rizivnr)
print aanvr_arts_rizivnr >> outfileadr
with this:
gsub(/\//,"",aanvr_arts_rizivnr)
print aanvr_arts_rizivnr >> "outfileadr"

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[johandepauw]

gsub(/\//,"",aanvr_arts_rizivnr)
print aanvr_arts_rizivnr >> outfileadr

Like this, it works !

Thanks for your help.