Re: GAWK error : replace newline with tab in WinXP ?

[Kam-Hung Soh]

On Mar 26, 2:50 am, John Bartley K7AAY <john.bart...@gmail.com> wrote:
> awk 'ORS=%NR%1?",":"\t"' %1.tsv > %1.csv
>
> This line of code, adapted 
> fromhttp://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~hamed/misc/awk1line.txt
> fails for me while running GNUWIN32 gawk 3.1.0  and I would appreciate
> guidance from y'all in finding a fix.
>
> I am trying to take a three line file and turn it into a one-line, tab-
> separated file, so I can (later on) concatenate multiple files into
> one CSV for import into Excel.
>
> Thank you kindly in advance.
>
> The TSV files look something like this:
>
> XY_12345_Acme_Blinder_Coughdrop-Optimal
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When I tried your script on Windows XP using GNU Awk 3.1.3, I found
this error:

gawk: cmd. line:1: 'ORS=1?,:\t'
gawk: cmd. line:1: ^ invalid char ''' in expression

If that is the problem you encountered, you have to escape the double-
quote mark in a double-quoted string using the "^" (double-quote caret
double-quote) sequence.  (It's as awkward as it sounds.)

Try:

gawk "ORS=1?"^"","^"":"^""\t"^""" %1.tsv > %1.csv

Regards,

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