Hi

I need to do some thing like "find and insert before that " in a file which contains many records. This will be clear with the following example.

The original data record should be some thing like this
but due to some system errors the file generated has got one missing information and it looks like

both has got 248 charaters length. but in the second record one data is missing i.e 441

i need to insert 441 exactly in that position if 442 is available as next data.
its some thing like case statements...

i will be having different values instead of 442 and their corresponding previous position data

How to go about this...any one help me out...
Am having lot of error files like this to be treated, hence can i do anything like upload in a DB and insert data based on the values in the row at the position i told before (442)

Help me out!!!

How would you know where EXACTLY to insert the missing 'data'?
How do you know that the missing '441' should be surround by n spaces/tabs on the left and m spaces/tabs on the right?

Hello there,

As it was said, you really have to define a pattern/structure for your file including the exact field numbers where data is supposed to be modified or at least a group of specific values according to which the script has to search the file and to add what is missing.

Just for giving you a first idea, if the specific values are 441 and 442, then the following KornShell script will do the job

So if there are several values, you can specify them in the for loop.

Yet, this works if and only if the delimiters in your file are the default values for IFS that is, \n \t and ' '.

Regards,

Hi
where i can mention the file name to read the lines from...in ur script.

Obviously on the command line, for example if the script file name is myscript.ksh and your file name is myfile you write:

$ ./myscript.ksh myfile

Hi

Its working but there is realignment in the data spacing.

The existing data positions should not be disturbed and the number of characters 248 should be maintained in the result too

There will be blank spaces at the end of each line and in between data as well. the blank space indiactes there is no data for that field.

Actually there are certain field names by which the reports are generated, if that field is not available in the report there will be blank space to mention that.

I need to maintain the length 248 characters. Since this file will be sent for formatting to different format in another server. So data has to be intact.

there must be 11 blank spaces after the timestamp : 20090309102806279
after that i need to insert the 441 if 442 is present.

As I said what I gave you was just a first idea (not the final solution) about how to proceed. According to what you wrote, you would need to add conditions inside the for loop in order to add or remove space characters according to the appropriate context.

splits the current line into tokens. So you have tokens and it's up to you to decide when and where to remove or insert space characters and how many. However if you look carefully at the script I just add one '\n' at the end of each line which I suppose is needed and one ' ' between each token '$RESULT $ITERATOR', so If you need more speces well you can increase them here or as I said elsewhere inside the loop by some If Else block.