Just to make user, your example is 3 lines ?
give an example of what you want the output to be for the first data
line in your example
the reason I ask is in your sample the data is colon sep'ed.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> I have a text file whose rows are formatted like this:
>
> BC-2:2009-02-15:Flow:150.00:ft/sec:Temperature (field):7.40:oF:Conductance,
> Specific:2058.00:umhos/cm:pH:7.40:Std Units
> BC-2:2009-05-15:Flow::ft/sec:Temperature (field):10.10:oF:Conductance,
> Specific:1224.00:umhos/cm:pH:8.14:Std Units
> BC-3:2009-02-15:Flow:326.00:ft/sec:Temperature (field):7.80:oF:Conductance,
> Specific:576.50:umhos/cm:pH:7.40:Std Units
>
> and I need to have them split into multiple rows. Each row would have field
> #1, a colon separator, field #2, a colon separator, then the parameter name,
> measured value, and units. A job for awk!
>
> Unfortunately, despite my referring to the ORA sed & awk book, my attempts
> to write a one-line script that uses a newline '\n' to split the lines
> throws an error. The script:
>
> # This script takes spreadsheet exports from single lines per location/data to
> # one line per location, date, and parameter.
>
> FS=":"
>
> {print
> $1':'$2':'$3':'$4':'$5\n$1':'$2':'$6':'$7':'$8\n$1':'$2':'$9':'$10':'$11\n$1':'$2':'$12':'$13':'$14}
>
> produces this error message:
>
> awk: reform.awk:6: {print
> $1':'$2':'$3':'$4':'$5\n$1':'$2':'$6':'$7':'$8\n$1':'$2':'$9':'$10':'$11\n$1':'$2':'$12':'$13':'$14}
> awk: reform.awk:6: ^ invalid char ''' in expression
>
> I'm sure the caret will be mis-aligned when you read this.
>
> Please tell me what I've missed.
>
> Rich
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