Grepping a timestamp range and assigning it to a constant


 
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Old 03-27-2017
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Originally Posted by RudiC
A day has 24 hours; you want to assign a certain value to each hour, a linear relationship that could be calculated has been rejected; so I put the desired values as defined by YOU into a 24 element array and have it indexed by the hour (using awk features) for output.
Look e.g. what you requested for 3pm (15h) and see what B[15] is.
brilliant, im like amazing, this is a fantastic shortcut, this work around is just amazing.
thank you, thank you so much
# 30  
Old 03-27-2017
In fact, it's not a work around but one of the basic methods in data processing.

Last edited by RudiC; 03-27-2017 at 07:26 AM.. Reason: better phrasing
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Old 03-27-2017
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Actually, it's not a work around but one of the central methods in data processing.
point noted. Thank you again
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