On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 18:21 -0500, Chris h wrote:
> Small problem and was wondering is some one can help. I have tabular
> data that
> is separated by spaces and want to convert it to csv format. I did
> some
> digging and found the necessary sed scripts to convert from cvs to
> space
> delimited text but not the other way around.
>
> sed -e :a -e 's/\(.*[0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}\)/\1,\2/;ta'
> ref: http://student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sedfaq4.
>
>
> Sample data:
>
> 2 45.388,889 -75.872,019 waypoint.wpt1 0 0 0 0
> 3 45.396,796 -75.885,759 waypoint.wpt1 0 0 0 0
> 4 45.405,001 -75.902,138 waypoint.wpt1 0 0 0 0
>
Seems like a lot of work for me. Try:
sed -e 's/ */,/g'
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