List format conversion

rickenbacherus · 09-30-2004, 10:32 PM

I need to convert a carriage return seperated list into a comma seperated list. Any idea how I might go about such a thing?

TIA

Tinkster · 09-30-2004, 10:39 PM

Something like
awk 'BEGIN{RS="\n";ORS=","} {print $0 }' <filename>
maybe?

Cheers,
Tink

CroMagnon · 09-30-2004, 10:47 PM

Hmmm, some more details might be useful.

Do you want to convert EVERY carriage return into a comma, or should there be x number of values per comma separated line, with carriage returns at the end of each line?

The former could be accomplished with 'tr':

Code:

cat file | tr "\012" ","

(substitute \015 if you actually mean character 13)

rickenbacherus · 10-18-2004, 11:23 AM

Thanks for the input guys. What I ended up doing was this:
perl -pe 's/\n/,/m' inputlist >outputfile