Hello,

I am newbie in awk. I have just started learning it.

1) I have input file which looks like:
{4812 4009 1602 2756 306} {4814 4010 1603 2757 309} {8116 9362 10779 }
{10779 10121 9193 10963 10908} {1602 2756 306 957 1025} {1603 2757 307}
and so on.....

2) In output:

a) numbers in first {} should be treated as a first string, second {} delimit a second string and third {} delimit a third string,
b) then, first number from first {} should be matched with first number from second {} and first number from third {}, similarly, second number from first {} should be matched with second number from second {} and second number from third {},

c) so the output should look:
4812 4814 8116
4009 4010 9362
and so on...

Thanks,
Kajolo

nawk -f kaj.awk myFile

kaj.awk:

BEGIN {
  FS="[{}]"
  SEPlist=" "
}
{
  split("",a)
  for (i=2; i<=NF; i=i+2) {
    n=split($i, list, SEPlist)
    min=(min==0) ? n : (n<min)?n:min
      for(j=1; j<=n; j++)
        a[j]=(j in a) ? a[j] OFS list[j] : list[j]

  }
  for(i=1; i<=min; i++)
     print a[i]
}

Hi!

Works perfectly!!
Thank you!

By the way I was trying to count the number of occurrences of each record for example:
4812 4814 8116 : 8, however when I do: uniq -c input > out it doesn't work. Instead of that
it prints: 1: 4812 4814 8116, then lets say 10 lines below when it finds this same record:
1: 4812 4814 8116 and so on..

Thanks again,
Kajolo

'uniq' assumes sorted file.

Ok - I found.
awk ' { print $0 }' input |sort |uniq -c

Thanks again for help.
Kajolo

-----Post Update-----

Hello again,

I have still some problems.
The input files has 21564 words (counted by wc -w input).
However output contains only 6207 words. It seems that AWK script prints/OR / analyze only first
few hundred of lines and then it stops???

Thanks,
Kajolo

-----Post Update-----

Hello again,

I have still some problems.
The input files has 21564 words (counted by wc -w input).
However output contains only 6207 words. It seems that AWK script prints/OR / analyze only first
few hundred of lines and then it stops???

Thanks,
Kajolo

well....
here's a quote from your original post:

{4812 4009 1602 2756 306} {4814 4010 1603 2757 309} {8116 9362 10779 }
{10779 10121 9193 10963 10908} {1602 2756 306 957 1025} {1603 2757 307}

Sorry - I wasn't precise.
1) Input file contains 1005 lines,
2) The number of words in each line (maximum and minimum) differ. Word is defined as a single number,
3) We have three strings, in each line, delimited by first {}, second {} and third {},
4) The important thing is that: number of words (regardless the row) in first {}, second {} and third {}
is exactly identical,
5) And thats way I would like to pair ALL elements with each other in the way I wrote before,

6) Here is the fragment of original input (I am not sure how it will be displayed here but each three {} are in single line),

{4812 4009 2357 1602 2756 1025 3199 951 957 0 99} {4814 4010 2358 1603 2758 1028 3200 952 958 1 100} {8116 9362 10121 10779 10120 10908 9274 10962 10963 10564 10602}

{4812 4009 2357 1602 957 951 1025 99} {4814 4010 2358 1603 958 952 1028 100} {8116 9362 10121 10779 10963 10962 10908 10602}

{4812 4009 2357 1602 1025 901 957 951 99} {4814 4010 2358 1603 1028 902 958 952 100} {8116 9362 10120 10779 10908 11012 10963 10962 10602}

{10121 10779 10120 10908 9274 11012 10962 10963 10564 10602} {2357 1602 2756 1025 3199 901 951 957 0 99} {2358 1603 2757 1028 3200 902 952 958 1 100}

{4812 1602 2756 951 957 99} {4814 1603 2757 952 958 100} {8116 10779 10120 10962 10963 10602}

{4009 1602 2756 2357 2357 99 719} {4010 1603 2758 2358 2358 100 720} {9362 10779 10120 10120 10121 10602 10375}

{4812 2756 2357 1025 3199 901 99} {4814 2759 2358 1028 3200 902 100} {8116 10120 10120 10908 9274 11012 10602}

{4812 1602 2756 2357 1025 3199 951 0 99 719} {4814 1603 2757 2358 1028 3200 952 1 100 720} {8116 10779 10120 10120 10909 9274 10962 10564 10602 10375}

{4812 3680 1602 2756 2357 3199 957 951 99 719} {4814 3682 1603 2757 2358 3200 958 952 100 720} {8116 9352 10779 10120 10121 9274 10963 10962 10602 10375}

in OUTPUT I would like (based on first line of input):

4812 4814 8116
4009 4010 2358
2357 2358 10121
1602 1603 10779 ... so the last record should be:
99 100 10602
and so on for all lines.


Regards,
Kajol