Can delimiter be more than one character?

When using MS Excel’s Text to column feature, you can tell Excel what to use as a delimiter in order to split text into columns.

How do I change the delimiter in Unix?

Shell script to change the delimiter of a file: Using the shell substitution command, all the commas are replaced with the colons. ‘${line/,/:}’ will replace only the 1st match. The extra slash in ‘${line//,/:}’ will replace all the matches. Note: This method will work in bash and ksh93 or higher, not in all flavors.

How does text to columns handle multiple characters?

The Text To Columns tool takes the text in one column and splits the string value into separate, multiple columns (or rows), based on a single or multiple delimiter(s)….Text To Columns Tool

  1. Select the Column to split.
  2. Delimiters: Enter the delimiter (s) to use to split the data on.
  3. Choose your method for splitting:

How do you delimit?

Try it!

  1. Select the cell or column that contains the text you want to split.
  2. Select Data > Text to Columns.
  3. In the Convert Text to Columns Wizard, select Delimited > Next.
  4. Select the Delimiters for your data.
  5. Select Next.
  6. Select the Destination in your worksheet which is where you want the split data to appear.

How do you cut a character in Unix?

To cut by character use the -c option. This selects the characters given to the -c option. This can be a list of comma separated numbers, a range of numbers or a single number. Where your input stream is character based -c can be a better option than selecting by bytes as often characters are more than one byte.

How do I cut a string after a specific character in Linux?

  1. Example 1: Using the Cut Keyword. Open the file “input.sh” from the home directory, and write the following code in the file.
  2. Example 2: Using the Awk Keyword. Open the file “input.sh” and write the appended code in the file.
  3. Example 3: Using the Sed Keyword.
  4. Example 4: Using Special Characters.

How do you split fields in awk?

The field separator can be either a single character or a regular expression. It controls the way awk splits an input record into the fields. By default, awk uses both space and tab characters as the field separator. You can tell awk how fields are separated using the -F option on the command line.