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Old 07-28-2005
nawk command clarification
Hi,

I am using the following command.

nawk '$1==p{$2=sprintf("%09d",$2+1)};1' p=$JOB_NUM q=$LEN $VALUE_TABLE > ./TEMP_TABLE

As you can see the code above, I basically read a value from the table VALUE_TABLE and select a particular row based on searching the value JOB_NUM. Now Actually the string i am incrementing ie, $2 is of 9 characters. So here i am populating that value 09 here. But i want to send this value as a variable here. ie i will place the value 9 in the table and i want to read it from there.

Please help me out in this, as to how to modify this code.
# 2  
Old 07-28-2005
not sure if that's what wanted...
Code:
 nawk '$1==p{$2=sprintf("%0" w "d",$2+1)};1' p=$JOB_NUM q=$LEN $VALUE_TABLE w=9> ./TEMP_TABLE

# 3  
Old 07-28-2005
Thanks
Thanks mate that a was cool one... Thanks alot.. Yes it was to my requirement. Had to struggle around for that syntax actually.....
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