large text file change

Gordon Marx gcmarx at gmail.com
Tue Aug 8 11:16:54 EDT 2006


On 08/08/06, Eric C <eric235u at newmag.org> wrote:
> what's an easy way to change the delimiters so i can import the data into
> openoffice base?

If there aren't ~s in the data, then you can use sed or perl or even
vim (:%s/~/,). If there are, then it depends on how they distinguish
between data ~s and delimiter ~s, but you should still be able to do
it pretty easily.

Gordon
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