Re: Line-ending for IFS test stream file

On 6/3/2015 2:41 PM,
MichaelQuigley@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

The whole process is that we export data from the IBM i using CPYTOIMPF to
a delimited file--i.e., using DTAFMT(*DLM) and RMVBLANK(*TRAILING). Some
of the character fields are all blanks. In the resulting comma separated
file, these all blank fields are rendered as " "--i.e,. Quote,Space,Quote.
The PC process which later uses the data doesn't interpret these as blank
fields. So I wrote a little utility to take out the intervening space
between the two quotes.

At this point you probably aren't interested in a change, but sed can do
that in one step. Posted for the benefit of the archives.

sed < midrange.csv

"Now", "is", "1345", "in the afternoon", " ", "the previous had only
a space", "."

sed -e "s/, \" \"/, \"\"/" < midrange.csv

"Now", "is", "1345", "in the afternoon", "", "the previous had only a
space", "."

Redirection would put it into another file:
sed -e "the regex" < fromfile > tofile

'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
regular expressions." Now they have two problems.' -- Jamie Zawinski

http://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-have-two-problems/