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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting can Awk split my field on the . Post 302142466 by jim mcnamara on Friday 26th of October 2007 10:37:25 AM
Old 10-26-2007
awk has a split() function split(value, array, separator)
In your case:
Code:
split($6, myarray, ".")

myarray now has two elements - the first and second subfields of the sixth field.
 

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UNIDUP(1)						      General Commands Manual							 UNIDUP(1)

NAME
unidup - Scan through a sorted .hex file and report duplicate code points. SYNOPSIS
unidup < input_font.hex DESCRIPTION
unidup reads a sorted GNU Unifont .hex file (sorted with the Unix sort utility) from stdin and prints notification of any duplicate code points on stdout. FILES
*.hex GNU Unifont font files SEE ALSO
bdfimplode(1), hex2bdf(1), hex2bdf-split(1), hex2sfd(1), hexbraille(1), hexdraw(1), hexmerge(1), johab2ucs2(1), unibmp2hex(1), unicover- age(1), unihex2bmp(1), unipagecount(1), uniunmask(1) AUTHOR
unidup was written by Paul Hardy. LICENSE
unidup is Copyright (C) 2007 Paul Hardy, and is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License, or (at your option) a later version. BUGS
No known bugs exist. 2007 Dec 31 UNIDUP(1)
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