I have a delimited file with few fields. But facing issue in processing the file because it contains values in free text format like paragraphs with multiple lines in a column. Hence the file is not able to read per record due to such wrapped type of values in a column. Is there a way to process the…

Let's take a look at the "command": perl -nF\| #' Call the Perl interpreter and step through each line splitting it into a fields array (@F) on | -e # run the following scriptlet on each line chomp; # remove the end of line if ($#F==3){ #if the largest index of @F is 3 print "$_\n";# just print…

Processing a delimited with paragraph type values in a column

Shell Programming and Scripting

RudiC November 22, 2021, 2:17pm 6

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