Re: Edit large data file

On Jun 16, 7:14 am, rwci...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Citek) wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:50 PM, mrwawa <wade.w...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is this possible, and if so how can I do it?

Can you give an example?

For example, using colons instead of tabs, if the input looks like this:

A:BC:D

then you want it to look like this:

A:B:C:D

Is that right?

Regards,
- Robert

That is correct. I decided to just write the output to a separate
file and then delete the original file. Thanks for all your help.

Wade

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