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  3. January 2003

Re: cpyfrmimpf null dilemma ?

Tim Truax wrote:
> 
> Jim,
> This may work, but there are many records that begin with 1 comma.
> So the replacement of the dual-commas would miss the single comma occurring
> at the beginning of many of these records.
> Thanks!
> 

sed "s/,,/,0,/g" < inputfile | sed "s/^,/0,/g" > outputfile


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