04-12-2007
Urgent help required
I have a text file, with a fixed format of certain data.
I have to extract certain fields of data.
Then store it in a structure.
Is it possible to use shell commands by making a system call from a C PROGRAM and then store the extracted data in the structure (which has been declared in the C program)
I have been told that a system call will not return data in a C program, is it true?if it is can u suggest an alternative.
The text file is too big to be using only C, thats why i have to use shell script.
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NAME
xmlstarlet - command line XML/XSLT toolkit
SYNOPSIS
xmlstarlet [<options>] [<command>] [<cmd-options>]
INTRODUCTION
XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files us-
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OPTIONS
--version
Display the version of xmlstarlet.
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COMMANDS
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Available commands include:
ed (or edit)
Edit/update XML document(s).
sel (or select)
Select data or query XML document(s) (XPATH, etc).
tr (or transform)
Transform XML documents(s) using XSLT.
val (or validate)
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fo (or format)
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