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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copying characters on each line in a file Post 302989256 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 10th of January 2017 10:34:59 AM
Old 01-10-2017
Welcome dmm,

I have a few to questions pose in response first:-
  • Is this homework/assignment? There are specific forums for these. I know you've been asked before, but you didn't really answer.
  • What have you tried so far?
  • What output/errors do you get?
  • What OS and version are you using?
  • What are your preferred tools? (C, shell, perl, awk, etc.)
  • What logical process have you considered? (to help steer us to follow what you are trying to achieve)
  • Is speed important, or is this a one-off? Shell commands might be simpler to knock together, but slower for long-term use.
Most importantly, What have you tried so far?

There are probably many ways to achieve most tasks, so giving us an idea of your style and thoughts will help us guide you to an answer most suitable to you so you can adjust it to suit your needs in future.


We're all here to learn and getting the relevant information will help us all.


Kind regards,
Robin
 

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locale

locale.h(3HEAD) 						      Headers							   locale.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       locale.h, locale - category macros

SYNOPSIS

       #include <locale.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The  <locale.h> header provides a definition for the lconv structure, which includes the following members. (See the definition of LC_MONE-
       TARY in locale(5).)

       char	    *currency_symbol
       char	    *decimal_point
       char	    frac_digits
       char	    *grouping
       char	    *int_curr_symbol
       char	    int_frac_digits
       char	    int_n_cs_precedes
       char	    int_n_sep_by_space
       char	    int_n_sign_posn
       char	    int_p_cs_precedes
       char	    int_p_sep_by_space
       char	    int_p_sign_posn
       char	    *mon_decimal_point
       char	    *mon_grouping
       char	    *mon_thousands_sep
       char	    *negative_sign
       char	    n_cs_precedes
       char	    n_sep_by_space
       char	    n_sign_posn
       char	    *positive_sign
       char	    p_cs_precedes
       char	    p_sep_by_space
       char	    p_sign_posn
       char	    *thousands_sep

       The <locale.h> header defines NULL (as defined in <stddef.h>) and the following as macros:

       LC_ALL
       LC_COLLATE
       LC_CTYPE
       LC_MESSAGES
       LC_MONETARY
       LC_NUMERIC
       LC_TIME

       The preceding expand to distinct integer constant expressions, for use as the first  argument  to  the  setlocale()  function.  See  setlo-
       cale(3C).

       Additional macro definitions, beginning with the characters LC_ and an uppercase letter, can also be specified here.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       setlocale(3C), localeconv(3C), stddef.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), locale(5), standards(5)

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