Re: Import German Decimal Numbers

Thank you very much!
You have remind me that the our server runs under Linux and not under
Windows as our clients :-)
So indeed I can use a sed-pipe construct to switch '.' and ','.
But wait, there is just another problem then. Our date format is also
german :-( "DD.MM.YY" or
"DD.MM.YYYY". So if I just exchange '.' and ',' the date will be
unreadable for the import :-(
The (current) file is 1.4 GB so it will take ages to let awk chew on it
I guess.

Christian

Ken Allen wrote:
> I would replace the ',' with something else such as a '#' first then
> replace the decimal with the ',' then replace the '#' with a decimal '.'
>
> If you do the ',' with a '.' first then all of them will be '.' and you
> wont know which ones to change.
>

> Don't know, but you can replace the , to . within the ascii-file (sed,
> awk, ...).
>
>
> Andreas