Re^3: one liner to capture value of field and insert in another field

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The problem with split is that by default, trailing empty fields are discarded. You can specify a negative count to prevent that, but you need to be more explicit in such a case:

 perl -lne '@F = split /\|/, $_, -1; $F[10] = $F[7] ; print join "|", 
+@F'
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Re^4: one liner to capture value of field and insert in another field by Anonymous Monk on Jan 28, 2015 at 16:45 UTC
I was just about to say that! :) It took me a while to figure out what dirtdog is saying about his file.	[reply]

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