Inserting double quotes after third delimiter

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

I'm trying to insert double quotes right after the third delimiter in a file. Delimiter is ^Z.

For example:

Input:
Oct ^Z 1234 ^Z John ^Z Hello!"

Desired Output:
Oct ^Z 1234 ^Z John ^Z "Hello!"

Any ideas?

2

Try this:

sed 's/\(.*^Z\)/\1"/' inputfile > outputfile

I'm presuming you added the spaces around the delimiters for clarity? If not, Just add a space after the Z in the sed script. I'm also presuming that the fourth field is the last field on the line.