New subject: [opensuse] AWK -- Strange chars used as separators in a CSV like file

29 May 2008

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From: Greg Freemyer 
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Simon Roberts  wrote:
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If anyone cares:

Out of curiosity, I tried the above.  It does not work because it
finds the first occurrence of ^T on a line, not the last like I
needed.

I may need to do this more in the future, so a vi command to do this
would be useful.
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Sorry, lazy testing :(

You need:

:%s/^v^T[^^v^T]*$//  

(colon, percent, ess, slash, control-v, control-t, left bracket, CARET,
control-v, control-t, right bracket, star, dollar, slash, slash

In other words, replace the dot-star "absolutely anything" wildcard
with a _set_ (square brackets) of "anything excluding control-t" (caret control-v control-t), repeated any number of
times (star).

(Or you can set minimal closures, but I forget how to do that :)

HTH,
Cheers,
Simon

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." — Naguib Mahfouz

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Re: [opensuse] AWK -- Strange chars used as separators in a CSV like file

Simon Roberts

Greg Freemyer

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