Hi there,
i do get some text files that i'd lile to clean them up based on following rule: if a line starts with " then remove return (new line, carriage return) before ".
Example, my input text file
line 1
line 2
"line 3
I'd like this to come as
line 1
line 2line3
How can i achieve this?
$ awk '/^"/ { print L substr($0,2) ; L="" ; C=0; next } { if(C) print L ; L=$0 ; C=1 } END { if(C) print L }' inputfile
line 1
line 2line 3
$
I'll need more details on the newline carriage return thing before I can account for that. are ALL your lines \r\n or just some?
thank you for your reply, that does work nicely.
after runnign your command i realized that some of my lines start with a space before ", some with ", can you please update the command so it includes lines that start with space followed by "
Thank you!
Not sure if this will work on more sophisticated file structures:
awk '{sub (/\n"/, _)} 1' RS= file
line 1
line 2line 3
For your new request, try
awk '{gsub (/\n *"/, _)} 1' RS= file
thank you both for your help!