On 22Sep2008 14:57, Ubence Quevedo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I've used pdftotext to convert a pdf document to text and then used
| a combination of grep and awk to single out data and replace formatting
| that I didn't need.
|
| The output data eventually looks like this:
| 12,123456789
| ,0987654321
|
| But I want it to look like this:
| 12,123456789,0987654321
|
| I've tried many different things with awk, but I can't get it replace
| \r, with just a ,
Do you want to only do this when the following line starts with a comma?
A little state machine might do (untested):
h # stash first line in hold space
:again
n # get next line
/^,/{ # starts with comma? do this stuff
H # append line to hold space
x # get hold space
s/\n// # remove embedded newline
x # put it back
b again # repeat for next line
}
x # pull back hold space for printing
Put that in a file called "sedf" and try:
sed -f sedf < olddata >newdata
and see how it goes. I think it will eat the last line as written.
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