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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Extracting records with unique fields from a fixed width txt file Post 302165817 by KevinADC on Saturday 9th of February 2008 03:56:46 AM
Old 02-09-2008
Your requirements are a bit vague, but here is a possible perl solution:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
#use Data::Dumper; #uncomment for debugging
unless (scalar @ARGV == 2){
   die "Usage: perl scriptname.pl inputfile outputfile\n";
}

my $outfile = pop @ARGV;
my %names = ();
my %count = ();

while (<>){
   chomp;
   my ($first,$mi,$last,$state) = unpack("a10a2a11a2",$_);
   (s/^\s*//, s/\s*$//) for ($first,$mi,$last,$state);
   $names{"$first,$last"}={count => ++$count{"$first,$last"},
                           name => "$first $mi $last $state",
                          };
}

#print Dumper \%names; #uncomment for debugging  

open my $out , '>' , $outfile or die "$!"; 

foreach my $person (keys %names) {
    next if $names{$person}{count}>1;
    print $out $names{$person}{name},"\n";
}

close $out;

print STDOUT "finished";
exit(0);

Usage:

perl scriptname.pl path/to/inputfile path/to/outputfile

Last edited by KevinADC; 02-09-2008 at 05:08 AM..
 

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NAME
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