Hi ,
This is a general doubt....
Is there any way to do data validation inside an awk script..
Let me make it more clear....
I have a string variable inside awk script .. Is there any way to check whether it is number or string etc...
Thanks in advance.
Shihab (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a script called read.sh that takes a file as input. Now I want to make that script take the file as input with a -f option preceding the filename. How can I do this validation. How can I find whether the given option is -f or not inside the script.
Thanks in advance (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have requirement where record length is stored in an variable RECORD_LENGTH
Code goes as follows
RECORD_LENGTH=537
the above is arrived from
#RECORD_LENGTH=`awk -F"=" '{$sum+=$2} END{print $sum}' DBP_Claims_CFG.ini`
awk '
{
if (length() == '$RECORD_LENGTH')
print FNR, $0... (4 Replies)
Hi guys, I have a piece of snippet below which asks the user to input some numbers
if isDatasubEnabled && isReconEnabled; then
echo "1 = CGT, 2 = Subscriber, 3 = Order Monitor, 4 = Revaluations, 5 = Reconciliation, 6 = All, 7 = Exit"
elif isDatasubEnabled &&... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a issue, I need to loop through a comma delimited file and check for the length which exceeds specified length , if Yes truncate the string.
But my problem is , I do not have to check for all the fields and the field lenght is not same for all the fields.
For ex:
Say my line... (9 Replies)
I have sourcefile and structure of source file,i want to check whether datatype and length mention in emp.txt is same as source file.
Example:
in emp.txt first row contains sno number so in source file also first column should contain only number if data is other than number then that... (1 Reply)
I am using below code to find the length of first column additionally I want the complete row which length is greater than 12.at the end I want the rows where first column data length is greater than 12.
Just it should validate and highlight the rows where length(first column) is greater than... (5 Replies)
I have several questions about using awk. I'm hoping someone could lend me a hand. (I'm also hoping that my questions make sense.)
I have a file that contains pipe separated data. Each line has similar data but the number of fields and the field position on each line is variable. ... (3 Replies)
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igawk
IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)