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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to remove page breaks from a flat file??? Post 302114609 by kumarsaravana_s on Tuesday 17th of April 2007 08:51:31 AM
Old 04-17-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
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
}

vgersh99

You are an absolute genius,i feel.It works really great.Thank you so much.

Regards,
Kumar
 

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Business::PayPal::API::TransactionSearch(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation	     Business::PayPal::API::TransactionSearch(3pm)

NAME
Business::PayPal::API::TransactionSearch - PayPal TransactionSearch API SYNOPSIS
use Business::PayPal::API::TransactionSearch; ## see Business::PayPal::API documentation for parameters my $pp = new Business::PayPal::API::TransactionSearch ( ... ); my %response = $pp->TransactionSearch( StartDate => '1998-01-01T00:00:00Z', TransactionID => $transid, ); DESCRIPTION
Business::PayPal::API::TransactionSearch implements PayPal's TransactionSearch API using SOAP::Lite to make direct API calls to PayPal's SOAP API server. It also implements support for testing via PayPal's sandbox. Please see Business::PayPal::API for details on using the PayPal sandbox. TransactionSearch Implements PayPal's TransactionSearch API call. Supported parameters include: StartDate (required) EndDate Payer Receiver TransactionID PayerName AuctionItemNumber InvoiceID TransactionClass Amount CurrencyCode Status as described in the PayPal "Web Services API Reference" document. The syntax for StartDate is: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ 'T' and 'Z' are literal characters 'T' and 'Z' respectively, e.g.: 2005-12-22T08:51:28Z Returns a list reference containing up to 100 matching records (as per the PayPal Web Services API). Each record is a hash reference with the following fields: Timestamp Timezone Type Payer PayerDisplayName TransactionID Status GrossAmount FeeAmount NetAmount Example: my $records = $pp->TransactionSearch( StartDate => '2006-03-21T22:29:55Z', InvoiceID => '599294993', ); for my $rec ( @$records ) { print "Record: "; print "TransactionID: " . $rec->{TransactionID} . " "; print "Payer Email: " . $rec->{Payer} . " "; print "Amount: " . $rec->{GrossAmount} . " "; } ERROR HANDLING See the ERROR HANDLING section of Business::PayPal::API for information on handling errors. EXPORT None by default. SEE ALSO
<https://developer.paypal.com/en_US/pdf/PP_APIReference.pdf> AUTHOR
Scot Wiersdorf <scott@perlcode.org> COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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