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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting AWK Multi-Line Records Processing Post 302141317 by RacerX on Thursday 18th of October 2007 03:52:48 PM
Old 10-18-2007
I've been reading about, and testing printf options for a while now, and am stuck on how to handle the above situation where one of the fields in a column is blank-whitespace. I tried using printf in the above code, specifically the following line using the first six fields only (i want to format the rest of the fields too, but for testing purposes only tried the first six to show my problem):
Code:
NR > 2 && (NR % 2 == 0 ) {printf "%-5s%-8s: %-10s: %-15s: %-10s: %-5s:\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6} /^$/{NR=0}

I GET RETURNED:
FEB  20-98   : VLY       : 1041           : 2094      : 8    :
JAN  7-98    : VLY       : 1030           : 2064      : 6    :
MAR  9-98    : VLY       : $500           : 1024      : 2060 :
MAR  13-98   : VLY       : $1,350         : 1004      : 2022 :
MAR  27-98   : VLY       : $675           : 1013      : 2020 :
MAY  1-98    : VLY       : $1,500         : 0594      : 1594 :
MAY  9-98    : HILL      : $2,000         : 0581      : 1570 :
MAY  15-98   : HILL      : 1003           : 2011      : 7    :
MAY  21-98   : HILL      : 0593           : 2010      : 7    :
FEB  22-98   : VLY       : $675           : 1013      : 2020 :
APR  3-98    : VLY       : $675           : 1001      : 2011 :
MAR  8-99    : VLY       : $500           : 1024      : 2060 :
MAR  13-99   : VLY       : $1,350         : 1004      : 2022 :
             :           :                :           :      :
AUG  25-98   : RIDC      : 1011           : 2011      : 9    :

Which messes up which columns go where. So, how can i handle formatting a field that is whitespace?

It should be:
Code:
FEB  20-98   : VLY       :                : 1041      : 2094      : 8    :
JAN  7-98    : VLY       :                : 1030      : 2064      : 6    :
MAR  9-98    : VLY       : $500           : 1024      : 2060 :
MAR  13-98   : VLY       : $1,350         : 1004      : 2022 :
MAR  27-98   : VLY       : $675           : 1013      : 2020 :
MAY  1-98    : VLY       : $1,500         : 0594      : 1594 :
MAY  9-98    : HILL      : $2,000         : 0581      : 1570 :
MAY  15-98   : HILL      :                : 1003      : 2011      : 7    :
MAY  21-98   : HILL      :                : 0593      : 2010      : 7    :
FEB  22-98   : VLY       : $675           : 1013      : 2020 :
APR  3-98    : VLY       : $675           : 1001      : 2011 :
MAR  8-99    : VLY       : $500           : 1024      : 2060 :
MAR  13-99   : VLY       : $1,350         : 1004      : 2022 :

AUG  25-98   : RIDC      :                : 1011      : 2011      : 9    :

 

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iso2022jp

iso2022jp(5)							File Formats Manual						      iso2022jp(5)

NAME

       iso2022jp, iso-2022-jp, ISO-2022-JP - A character encoding system (codeset) for Japanese

DESCRIPTION

       The ISO-2022-JP codeset consists of the following character sets: ASCII

	      For information on the ASCII character set, refer to ascii(5).  JIS X0201-1976

	      Only the Roman letters in this character set are included. For details, refer to deckanji(5).  JIS X0208-1978 JIS X0208-1983

	      JIS X0208-1983 is a revised version of JIS X0208-1978 and remapped some characters of JIS X0208-1978 to other positions.

       Before  a character is used, its corresponding character set must be designated. In ISO-2022-JP, the designation of a character set is done
       by using an escape sequence as follows:

       ---------------------------------------------------------------
       Escape Sequence	 Character Set
       ---------------------------------------------------------------
       ESC ( B		 ACSII
       ESC ( J		 JIS X0201-1976 (left-hand part)
       ESC $ @		 JIS X0208-1978
       ESC $ ( 0	 User-defined characters (This range of char-
			 acters is proprietary to Compaq.)
       ESC $ B		 JIS X0208-1983
       ---------------------------------------------------------------

       It is assumed that the starting code of a line is ASCII (including CR alone and LF alone, but not including the combination CRLF). If there
       are JIS X0208 characters on a line, there must be a switch to ASCII or to the left-hand part of JIS X0201 (Roman letters) before the end of
       the line (in other words, before the CRLF, or carriage return and line feed).

       For  example, if a line starts with the ASCII character 9, followed by the JIS X0208-1978 character at row 16 column 1, the line is encoded
       as follows:

       39h ESC $ @ 30h 21h .... ESC ( B .... CRLF

       If a line starts with the JIS X0208-1978 character at row 16 column 1, followed by the ASCII character 9, then the line is encoded as  fol-
       lows:

       ESC $ @ 30h 21h ESC ( B 39h .... CRLF

       Once a character set is designated, there is no need to redesignate the character set if the adjacent character belongs to the same charac-
       ter set. For example, the following practice is not recommended:

       ESC $ B .... ESC $ B ....

       Currently, the operating system supports the ISO 2022-JP codeset only through codeset  converters;  there  is  no  direct  support  through
       locales or fonts. For your options in printing and displaying Japanese characters, refer to i18n_printing(5) and Japanese(5).

   Codeset Conversion
       The  following codeset converter pairs are available for converting Japanese characters between ISO-2022-JP and other encoding formats.	In
       converter names, the string ISO-2022-JP indicates that user-defined characters are  not	included  in  the  conversion  jwhile  the  string
       ISO-2022-JPext indicates that user-defined characters are included in the convertsion. Refer to iconv_intro(5) for an introduction to code-
       set conversion. For more information about the other codeset for which ISO-2022-JP or ISO-2022-JPext is the input or output, see the refer-
       ence page specified in the list item.  deckanji_ISO-2022-JP or deckanji_ISO-2022-JPext, ISO-2022-JP_deckanji or ISO-2022-JPext_deckanji

	      Converting  from	and  to  the  DEC  Kanji  codeset:  deckanji(5).   eucJP_ISO-2022-JP or eucJP_ISO-2022-JPext, ISO-2022-JP_eucJP or
	      ISO-2022-JPext_eucJP

	      Converting from and to Japanese Extended UNIX Code: eucJP(5).  sdeckanji_ISO-2022-JP or sdeckanji_ISO-2022-JPext, ISO-2022-JP_sdeck-
	      anji or ISO-2022-JPext_sdeckanji

	      Converting  from	and  to  the  Super DEC Kanji codeset: sdeckanji(5).  SJIS_ISO-2022-JP or SJIS_ISO-2022-JPext, ISO-2022-JP_SJIS or
	      ISO-2022-JPext_SJIS

	      Converting from and to the Shift JIS codeset: SJIS(5).

	      Note that SJIS encoding is equivalent to the Microsoft code-page format used on PC systems. Therefore, you can use these	converters
	      to convert Japanese characters between the ISO 2022-JP and PC code-page formats. See code_page(5) for information on how the operat-
	      ing system supports PC code pages.

SEE ALSO

       Commands: locale(1)

       Others:	ascii(5),  code_page(5),  deckanji(5),	eucJP(5),  i18n_intro(5),  i18n_printing(5),  iconv_intro(5),	iso2022(5),   Japanese(5),
       jiskanji(5), l10n_intro(5), sdeckanji(5), shiftjis(5)

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