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Yes I would like the output to be: &nbsp;&quot;12345~123-45-6789&quot; <br />
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The data is a listing of client ids and there order numbers
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Yes I would like the output to be:  "12345~123-45-6789"
 
The data is a listing of client ids and there order numbers

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so you want the output to remove the trailing ~?<br />
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then:<br />
sed -e 's/\(~...\)\(..\)\(....\)~<wbr />/\1-\2-\3/<wbr />;'<br />

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so you want the output to remove the trailing ~?

then:
sed -e 's/\(~...\)\(..\)\(....\)~/\1-\2-\3/;'


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Have an ascii file that contains lines of data in the format: <br />
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12345~123456789~<br />
12346~023456789~ <br />
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Need to place dashes into send string of numbers to format a social security number <br />
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123-45-6789<br />
023-45-6789 <br />
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Would like to do this on the command line using sed, if possible. The data would be piped to the sed command. 
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Have an ascii file that contains lines of data in the format: 
 
12345~123456789~
12346~023456789~ 
 
Need to place dashes into send string of numbers to format a social security number 
 
123-45-6789
023-45-6789 
 
Would like to do this on the command line using sed, if possible. The data would be piped to the sed command. 

need to enter dashs into a string of characters &quot;123456789&quot; using sed result s/b &quot;123-45-6789&quot;

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need to enter dashs into a string of characters &quot;123456789&quot; using sed result s/b &quot;123-45-6789&quot;

need to enter dashs into a string of characters "123456789" using sed result s/b "123-45-6789"