Re: file where sep decimals is comma

[Marco Atzeri]

On 9/23/2011 3:13 PM, Sebastian Kruk wrote:
> Hi, I have a csv file where sep is ";" and I have "," as decimal point.
>
> How I can import directly in Octave?
>
> An example:
>
> 1953;1453,6
> 1954;1480,1
> 1955;1576,4
> 1956;1621,5
[cut]
> 1983;4036,7
> 1984;4249,6
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sebastián.

sed is your friend, in two step

sed -e "s/,/./" -e "s/;/,/" old_file > new_file

Regards
Marco