Edit text file. Remove varying end of each line.

[n666]

Hey All,

I'm working with a large document in which I need to get rid of some junk at the end of each line of text.

For example:

Concerts - Alan Jackson 2006/11/07 22:17:07
Concerts - Anthrax 2007/02/13 22:01:18 2007/02/13 22:01:18

Needs to become:

Concerts - Alan Jackson
Concerts - Anthrax


something Java based would be best.

Thanks

 

[Crusty]

Will each line follow the EXACT same formatting for the start? IE... Will it always be "Concerts - Performer Name" followed by the junk? Will the data following the name always be a date/time as well?

 

[lozina]

using java I would use regular expression, go line by line and do something like this:

(it looks for the beginning of the date with a pattern like "####/" )

edit: i have no idea why the code thing is bunching up my lines like that

 

[esun]

Java? Seems awfully excessive for something like this. How about sed?

sed -i 's/ [^a-zA-Z]*$/' filename.txt

That will get rid of all non-alphabetic characters at the end of a line (that follow a space, so a song ending in a number won't be affected).

 

[n666]

thanks guys, got it worked out with your help