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Started by Guest_Jordan_* , Nov 17 2008 07:02 AM

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Guest_Jordan_*
Posted 17 November 2008 - 07:02 AM

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I use this little script for EDI parsing. It will add a linebreak after a character it finds.

#!/bin/sh -vx

# Script to add line breaks after the delimiter of an EDI file.
# Paramters:    filename    input file (edi data file)
#               output      file to be written
#               delimiter   ending delimiter of EDI file (\, *, ~, etc)
############################################################################

# Variables
filename=$1
output=$2
delim=$3
replace='s/'$delim'/\n/g'

cat $1 | tr -d "\n" > $output.br4
cat $output.br4 | sed -e $replace > $output

Usage:
# linebreak.sh <filename> <output filename> <delimiter>

Text Sample:
v1,v2*v3,v4*v5,v46*

Example:
# linbreak.sh /example.txt /example_parsed.txt \*

Note: You have to escape special characters

Output:
v1,v2*
v3,v4*
v5,v46*

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John
Posted 17 November 2008 - 10:00 AM

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How many languages did you write this EDI parser in?

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Guest_Jordan_*
Posted 17 November 2008 - 11:22 AM

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This isn't an EDI parser but a customized program for an ERP program we have. It was unable to handle reading text files without linebreaks.
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