[118226] in Cypherpunks
Re: fixed length
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Wed Sep 22 07:40:49 1999
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 04:05:50 -0700
To: Richard Simpson <Richard.Simpson@sitel.com>,
"'cypherpunks@toad.com'" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
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Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 11:24 AM 09/22/1999 +0100, Richard Simpson wrote:
>hi I have a problem, i need to convert a csv data file (each containing
>about 30 fields) into a fixed length format in unix, is there a program
>availible?
Awk and perl are both quite good at this.
It's also very simple to write a C program to do it.
Shell scripts aren't too bad either.
For that matter, things named .csv usually come from Excel,
which can also be talked into pretty-printing them instead.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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