Sharninder; What I do manually is to move the competitor2 thru competitorx part#s up to the last FULL record line. some times there is only one competitor part # and sometimes there is up to 4; and the way FileMaker exports them is to put them on a separate record line by themselves. Russell On Apr 27, 2006, at 5:51 AM, Sharninder wrote: >> From what I can make out by your example, all you have to do is >> replace > ' ' (space) with '\n' (newline) using something like sed. Is this what > you want ? > > Regards, > Sharninder > > > On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 05:12 -0500, Russell McGaha wrote: >> Folks; >> I've got a FileMaker exported csv files in the following format: >> >> Part#,Disc.,List Price, ... ,Competitor1 part# >> ,,, ... , compeditor2 part # >> >> . >> . >> . >> ,,, ... ,compeditorx part# >> Part#,Disc, List price, ... ,Competitor1 part# >> >> I currently have to manually parse the Competitor2 thru competitorx >> part#'s on to the previous line. >> Any one have any idea(s) how I might be able to automate this >> procedure? >> >> Russell >> _______________________________________________ >> X-Unix mailing list >> X-Unix at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-unix >> >> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random >> stuff: >> http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > _______________________________________________ > X-Unix mailing list > X-Unix at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-unix > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984