| User: editor -- 2011-02-17 << 718 720 >> |
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| Type: Text file parser |
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| Description: |
| How to extract the second column from a database text file? There is a database txt file with many records, each record has many elements or columns that seperated by a "|", how to extract the second element in each record, and join them with comma ","? |
| Input Sample: |
| a1|a2|a3|a4|a5 b1|b2|b3|b4|b5 c1|c2|c3|c4|c5 .... |
| Output Sample: |
| a2,b2,c2,d2,... |
| Answer: |
| Hint: You need to Download and install "Replace Pioneer" on windows platform to finish following steps. |
| 1. ctrl-o open database file(txt). 2. ctrl-h open replace window * set 'replace unit' to 'Line' * set 'replace with pattern' to: 3. click 'replace', done! 4. ctrl-s save to disk. |
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