Re: Inserting fields by reading and comparing two files? -->
by Gecko12332 <google@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mar 20, 2008 at 06:17 PM
Wow! Grant & Ed for the amazing help ( more like the answer:) ) on
this! Worked like a charm! I did forget one thing which was some of
these names had middle initials which were always single char followed
by a period IE Jane S. Doe so I stripped any possible middle initials
out by doing the following, though it took me forever to figure out:
awk -F. '{gsub("\\.","");gsub(" . "," "); print $1}' names.out >
names_no_middle_initial.out
Cool stuff!
Once again thanks for your responses that was awesome ^__^
Stephan
