>Can the UNIX cut command work for a file with multi-bytes delimeter(i.e.
>||)?
>
>Below is what I got:
>%cut -f2-32 -d"||" <filename>
>%cut: invalid delimiter

I think the command told you the answer. If that delimiter were allowed, it wouldn't have said that it's invalid.

awk doesn't complain if you try to use -F'||', but it only uses the first character. nawk allows this to be a regular expression, so you can use:

nawk -F'\|\|' ...

Perl's split() function also allows arbitrary regular expressions as the delimiter.

Barry Margolin

documented on: 1999.10.15 Fri 16:05:47