Text Manipulation/Replacement

[Mark Haney]

Ubence Quevedo wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I've used pdftotext to convert a pdf document to text and then used a
> combination of grep and awk to single out data and replace formatting
> that I didn't need.
> 
> The output data eventually looks like this:
> 12,123456789
> ,0987654321
> 
> But I want it to look like this:
> 12,123456789,0987654321
> 
> I've tried many different things with awk, but I can't get it replace \r, with just a ,
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on how I can accomplish this, or at least give me an idea of what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Thanx in advance for any help.
> 
> -Ubence
> 
> 

I'm curious to know if the first line of data ends with a \n?  If so, 
I'd bet searching for it and removing it would fix that.  The \r is just 
a simple return char, this looks like a Return with Newline which 
grepping for \r won't catch.



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