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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove page breaks from a flat file??? Post 302114472 by vgersh99 on Monday 16th of April 2007 10:23:41 AM
Old 04-16-2007
Code:
#!/usr/bin/nawk -f

BEGIN {
  FS=OFS="|"

  FLD_max=11

  FF=sprintf("\f")
  
  stderr="cat 2>&1" 
}
$0 ~ FF { gsub(FF, ""); $1=$1 }

(fld + NF-1) > FLD_max {
       if (fld == FLD_max)
          print rec
       else
          printf("Incomplete record: [%d] :: [%s]\n", FNR, rec) | stderr
       rec=$0; fld=NF;next
}
NF < FLD_max {printf("Bad record: [%d] :: [%s]\n", FNR, $0) | stderr; rec=(rec != "") ? rec $0 : $0; fld+=(NF-1);next }
{rec=$0; fld=NF}
END {
  if (rec != "" && split(rec, a, FS) >= FLD_max ) print rec
}

 

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