Columns - the end

[James N McClatchey]

Thanks to all who answered. It is interesting to me how often strings
and string manipulation are the subject of problems and questions in
the C-Unix environment. 

To summarize:

Problem: convert "every | good | boy | does | fine" to

every
good
boy
does
fine

Answers: Consensus seemed to be to use sed to strip whitespace.
Then to add newlines:

1 ) gawk

awk -F\| '{for (i=0;i<=NF;i++) {printf "%s\n,$i}}'

2) tr

tr '|' '\012'

3) fmt

sed 's/|//g' | fmt -1

I guess I liked #2 myself. #1 seemed a little obtuse. #3 might cause
problems with fields that contained whitespace in their midst.
Thanks again!

Regards - Jim
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