> On October 25, 2007 10:57:49 am you wrote:
> >
> > If all you just want to do is strip out the ^M, you can run dos2unix on
> > it, assuming that you are running a *nix distro.
>
> Well, I guess I could strip the ^M but I'm still left with a $ in the
> middle
> of a field which in the same as the line terminator, so COPY thinks it is
> at
> the end of a line when it is really in the middle of the field. I really
> wish they would have quoted these fields, but I'm at a loss how to import
> these.
>
As I understand it when a line starts with $ you would like to merge it with
the previous line.
I suppose you have a file like this:
--- test.txt ---
this is
$field1, and this is
$field2
I'll create the test file:
$ printf "this is \n\$field1, and this is \n\$field2\n" > test.txt
(I assume ^M have already been replaced so \n are used instead)
A short C program should do it:
/*------ code listing -----*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define NL '\n'
#define FILTER '$'
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
FILE *fp;
char c;
if (argc < 2) fp=stdin;
else {
fp=fopen(argv[1], "r");
if (!fp) {
perror(argv[1]);
exit(1);
}
}
c=fgetc(fp);
while(!feof(fp)) {
if(c==NL) {
c=fgetc(fp);
if(feof(fp)) {
putchar(NL);
break;
}
}
if(c!=FILTER) putchar(c);
c=fgetc(fp);
}
exit (0);
}
/*------------------*/
compile as:
$ gcc -o test test.c
Execute as:
$ test test.txt
this is field1, and this is field2
Could this be of help?
Regards,
Fernando.
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