[Nottingham] Howto delete chars from midway into lines of text?

[Martin]

On 06/05/10 13:46, Martin wrote:
> On 06/05/10 13:37, TJ wrote:
>> sed 's/\("\)\([^",]*\)\("\)/\2/4' test.csv
>>
>> Replace the final '4' with N.
> 
> Excellent!
> 
> That works a treat and is far better than counting characters...

Slight improvement for my case:

sed 's/\("\)\([ .0-9]*\)\("\)/\2/g'


That now will convert all quoted text numbers to non-quoted.


Yeah! The power of open source!!

:-)


(Never thought to use positional parameters. Rather neat!)

Cheers,
Martin

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