Need to parse XML file with no newline char. Want to add newline

[eholdo]

Using c-shell, I need to do the following:

I have an XML file that has <tag>data</tag><tag2>more data</tag2>

etc..... This is all on one long line, or multiple lines if it goes past 1024 characters or so. I need to work with this file to parse these values, and want to break the file up wherever there is a >. In other words, every > I want to replace with a \n (LF.

Help!!!

Thanks
Erik

 

[SteveR77]

Erik,

This sed statement will give you the following -

<tag>
data</tag>
<tag2>
more data</tag2>


sed 's/>/>\n/g' datafile


Note - There will be an extra newline at the end of the data.


Hope this helps,

Steve

 

[eholdo]

Thanks Steve,

I've been trying this, but for some reason, the \n is not being interpreted and it's just replacing the > with >n

Any thoughts. I'm on Solaris 2.6

Thanks again.

 

[SteveR77]

Make sure there are no spaces between the single quotes.

The sed -e switch might be an option as well but I know the \n is the newline syntax for Solaris as well as Linux.

Let me know if it still doesn't work I will get access to a Solaris server to make sure I am not missing something.

 

[eholdo]

Still don't know why it's not working, but I used:

cat filename | tr &quot;>&quot; &quot;\n&quot; > newfilename

and that worked.

Thanks for the effort. I think it may be my version of sed.

 

[aigles]

You can use awk :

awk '{gsub(&quot;>&quot;,&quot;>\n&quot ;sub(&quot;\n$&quot;,&quot;&quot ; print $0}'

For every line :
[tt]gsub(&quot;>&quot;,'>\n&quot[/tt] add newline after every '>'
[tt]sub(\n$&quot;,&quot;&quot [/tt] remove extra newline added for lines ending with '>'
[tt]print $0 [/tt] print the line


Jean Pierre.

 

[aigles]

With sed :

--- break.sed ---
s/>/>/g
------------------

sed -f break.sed < input_file > output_file

Jean Pierre.