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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Counting position of a character Post 302147578 by radoulov on Tuesday 27th of November 2007 05:26:25 PM
Old 11-27-2007
Something like this (change NEW to whatever you want):

Code:
awk 'NF>1{
	printf "rec: %d ",FNR
	for (i=1;i<=NF-1; i++)
		printf ( index($0,$(i+1)) - 1 ) ? "pos: "index($0,$(i+1)) - 1" ": "pos: "length" "
	print ""
	tot += ( NF - 1 )
} 
NF > 2 {
	gsub(FS,"NEW")
	} 
{ 
	all[FNR] = $0
} END {
	printf "total [ %s ] in %s: %d\n", FS, FILENAME, tot
	if ( tot )
		{
			printf "New %s content:\n", FILENAME
			for (r=1; r<=FNR; r++)
			print all[r]
	}
}' FS="z" filename

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.

Last edited by radoulov; 11-28-2007 at 06:02 AM..
 

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XmTextFindStringWcs(3X) 												   XmTextFindStringWcs(3X)

NAME
XmTextFindStringWcs - A Text function that finds the beginning position of a wide character text string SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Text.h> Boolean XmTextFindStringWcs (widget, start, wcstring, direction, position) Widget widget; XmTextPosition start; wchar_t *wcstring; XmTextDirection direction; XmTextPosition *position; DESCRIPTION
XmTextFindStringWcs locates the beginning position of a specified wide character text string. This routine searches forward or backward for the first occurrence of the string, starting from the given start position. If a match is found, the function returns the position of the first character of the string in position. Specifies the Text widget ID. Specifies the character position from which the search pro- ceeds. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the text buffer. The first character position is 0. Specifies the wide character search string. Indicates the search direction. It is relative to the primary direction of the text. The possible values are: The search proceeds toward the end of the buffer. The search proceeds toward the beginning of the buffer. Specifies the pointer in which the first character position of the string match is returned. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the buf- fer. The first character position is 0. If the function returns False, this value is undefined. For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3X). RETURN VALUE
Returns True if a string match is found; otherwise, returns False. SEE ALSO
XmText(3X), XmTextFindString(3X) XmTextFindStringWcs(3X)
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