Re: sed split on pipe

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Jack Butchie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Have been googling for some time now and every command I tried fails.  I
> want to use sed from the command line or use it in a windows batch file to
> split on a pipe delimited file, windows server. The examples  have \n as the
> carriage return code, but all that happens is the pipe is replaced by the
> letter n.
>
> the file has a space between each line
>
> CALL|TITLE|URL LINK|
>
> CALL|TITLE|URL|LINK

Maybe your files have windows line endings, or you haven't accounted
for the the examples assuming a unix shell, which handles quotes
differently?

Sine this is a Perl list, though, perhaps you would like to try using
Perl instead of sed? Something along the lines of the following should
work.

perl -F'|' -lane 'print join "\n", @F unless /^\s*$/'
# or
perl -lpane 's/|/\n/'

On Windows you may need to change the quotes around.

HTH

-- jay
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