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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers finding first instance Post 26162 by Nisha on Tuesday 13th of August 2002 01:35:56 AM
Old 08-13-2002
Hey Peter,

With a small modification here my code also works... Smilie

But I have very important doubts to be cleared.....

Here is the code...

{
max=11;
line=substr($0,0,max) ;
firstcol=substr(line,0,3) ;
secondcol=substr(line,5,3);
thirdcol=substr(line,9,1)

if ( firstcol != field1 || secondcol != field2 )
{ print firstcol "," secondcol "," thirdcol; field1=firstcol; field2=secondcol }
}

And I executed it as awk -f cmp_rec test.dat > log

Ofcourse, i can execute it as u said too....

First let me clarify with you whether my understanding is right...

it is col to col comparison right??

for example,

aaa|bbb|1
aaa|bbb|2 would give me aaa|bbb|1
xxx|yyy|3 xxx|yyy|3
xxx|yyy|4 zzz|rrr|5
zzz|rrr|5

Bcos it compares aaa and bbb of the first row and the aaa and bbb of the second row...

if the first col and the second col of the first row is not equal to the first and second col of the second row, then that first instance is printed..

Now coming to the doubt,

In the above code why shoud i assign

field1=firstcol; field2=secondcol

Are these field1 and field2 key fields???? meaning system defined..???

Can you explain???


Thanks,
Nisha
 

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FPUTCSV(3)								 1								FPUTCSV(3)

fputcsv - Format line as CSV and write to file pointer

SYNOPSIS
int fputcsv (resource $handle, array $fields, [string $delimiter = ","], [string $enclosure = '"'], [string $escape_char = " DESCRIPTION
fputcsv(3) formats a line (passed as a $fields array) as CSV and write it (terminated by a newline) to the specified file $handle. PARAMETERS
o $handle -The file pointer must be valid, and must point to a file successfully opened by fopen(3) or fsockopen(3) (and not yet closed by fclose(3)). o $fields - An array of values. o $delimiter - The optional $delimiter parameter sets the field delimiter (one character only). o $enclosure - The optional $enclosure parameter sets the field enclosure (one character only). o $escape_char - The optional $escape_char parameter sets the escape character (one character only). RETURN VALUES
Returns the length of the written string or FALSE on failure. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------+ | 5.5.4 | | | | | | | The $escape_char parameter was added | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 fputcsv(3) example <?php $list = array ( array('aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc', 'dddd'), array('123', '456', '789'), array('"aaa"', '"bbb"') ); $fp = fopen('file.csv', 'w'); foreach ($list as $fields) { fputcsv($fp, $fields); } fclose($fp); ?> The above example will write the following to file.csv: aaa,bbb,ccc,dddd 123,456,789 """aaa""","""bbb""" NOTES
Note If PHP is not properly recognizing the line endings when reading files either on or created by a Macintosh computer, enabling the auto_detect_line_endings run-time configuration option may help resolve the problem. SEE ALSO
fgetcsv(3). PHP Documentation Group FPUTCSV(3)
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