[ale] swap 2 fields (in a tabbed file)?

[Christopher Bergeron]

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Well, ultimately I'd like to do it on the command line using existing
utilities or possibly regexp's.  




Denny Chambers wrote:

| You did not specifiy a language in which to do this in, so I will
| offer up Java, and it's StringTokenizer class
| (java.util.StringTokenizer). You should be able to do this with just a
| couple of lines of code.
|
| Denny
|
| Christopher Bergeron wrote:
|
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|> Does anyone know how I can swap 2 fields in a tab delimited file
|> containing 2 fields?
|>
|> Here's an example of my data:
|> ~ <TAB>WOODSTOCK OUTLET<CR>
|> AF100<TAB>METRO AUDIO DYNAMI<CR>
|>
|> What I'd like to do is swap the 2 fields (or do a `sort` based on the
|> second field!) such that I end up with this:
|> WOODSTOCK OUTLET<TAB> <CR>
|> METRO AUDIO DYNAMICS<TAB>AF100<CR>
|>
|> Does anyone know of a way I can accomplish this? I tried using cut
|> - -f2,1 -d"\t" but no adeu...
|>
|> As always, much thanks in advance!
|> - -CB
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