Re: Importing lines of variable length from ASCII

On 26 February 2010 00:52, A. Kretschmer
<andreas.kretschmer@schollglas.com> wrote:
> kretschmer@tux:~$ cat file.txt | awk  '{cols=split($0,a,"|"); if (cols==4) print $0; else printf ("%s|\n",$0)}'

Slightly shorter variant:
awk -F'|' '{if(NF<4){print $0"|"}else{print $0}}' file.txt



> Regards, Andreas

Cheers,
Andrej


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