[Gllug] Processing characters in a file

[Russell Howe]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:18:03AM +0000, Matthias Stingelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to process a file containing comma delimited integers with line breaks 
> and { } brackets scattered at random through the file. I wish to remove all 
> line breaks and brackets from the file and to then place new line breaks at 
> fixed interval (say every 100 integer). Is sed the tool you would use? any 
> hints welcome.

I think this is how I'd do it:

pipe to:

tr -d '{}\n'|sed -e 's/,\+/,/g' -e 's/\(\([0-9]\+,\)\{,100\}\)/\1\r\n/g'

You probably want to add a trailing ',' to your dataset and remove it at
the end.

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