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Data issue with sequencial file

Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 11:39 pm
by prasson_ibm
Hi all,
I am extracting sequencial file of comma seperated and quote character is double quote.But there are some junk characters in the one of the columns.I want this junk character to be removed or can be rejected to track the records.If you have any idea ,how to handle this ,please let tell me.
Regards
Prasoon Kumar

Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 11:48 pm
by mahadev.v
See if this post helps. viewtopic.php?t=113640

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:49 am
by prasson_ibm
mahadev.v wrote:See if this post helps. viewtopic.php?t=113640
Thanks this has helped me and i have resolved my issue with junk character/......

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 4:20 pm
by ray.wurlod
How?

Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 11:12 pm
by prasson_ibm
ray.wurlod wrote:How? ...
Hi Ray,
There was some junk character in my source file,so i have used piped the source file with tr command and with tr -d option i have deleted that junk characher.............

Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 12:50 am
by ray.wurlod
Then you have deprived the owners of those data of some of their data.

On whose authority were those characters declared to be "junk"? Did you get agreement from the business to delete them? Who, in the organization, is the data steward with responsibility for this item of data?