If you don't want to read the file line by line, how else can you read it? Or do you mean you don't want to write a shell script which reads each line one by one? sed and awk both operate specifically on one line at a time by default. Other than that, awk sounds like the tool of choice here.
Is the input file fixed-length, or is there some particular separator? Assuming this is fixed length, columns 1-5, 6-11, 12-22, and the rest, something like:
Please use code tags for clarity when posting sample data.
Hi,
Is there some way to get formatted output in ksh? Something like a properly alligned tabular format. I tried adding '\t' to echo statements, but it doesn't come properly alligned
'hello' A simple Hello
'helloworld' A helloworld statement
I need the second coloumn to... (1 Reply)
var=12345
echo $var >>>12345
printf "%8.1f \n" $var >>> 12345.0
How to get this as 12,345?
I suppose I could break into sections by dividing by 1000 or 1000000.
But, is the a trick to this? (4 Replies)
Hi
I have the following records in a file
SABN YOURTUBE 000514 7256
SACN XYOUDSDF 000514 7356
SADN KEHLHRSER 000514 7656
SAEN YOURTUBE 000514 7156
SAFN YOURTUBE 000514 7056
I need to put this in the format like this
printf '%s %-50s %6s %-6s\n'
I am not going to read individual... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have the input file as below
***TEST10067
00567GROSZ 099
00567CTCTSDS90
***TEST20081
08233GROZWEWE
00782GWERW899
***TEST30088
08233GROZWEWE
00782GWERW899
I am finding the lines starting with *** and outputing as below
TEST10067
TEST20081
TEST30088
I need a space between TEST1... (9 Replies)
Hello,
I am working on one script which is giving output as a pipe "|" separated
abcd | efgh | 20090745
abcdefgh | efg | 20090622
Can any one please help me i want it to be formatted as pipe will be aligned, or the output looks like a table. (2 Replies)
Dear All,
Good Day. I would like to hear your suggestions for the following problem:
I have a file with 5 columns with some numbers in 16 lines as shown below.
Input file:
Col 1 Col 2 Col 3 Col 4 Col 5
12 220 2 121 20
234 30 22 9... (3 Replies)
Can you please tell me how to just get only the output of dealers I & V information along with their subtotals in the next line of the file and create a new file, The dealer position along with corresponding totals may change everyday to any position above or below in the file, please help Thanks (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I want generate HP-UX overall system performance report.
I tried executing top command and write that out put to file. but am not able to view the report in proper format.
I can see report like below in file but i can see properly in terminal.
Please suggest how can i get... (2 Replies)
Hi Techies,
I'm a newbie to PERL, Please help me with following problem.
I have an input text file like below
cat Input.txt
418673132,P
492538858,P
384535478,P
521522357,I
529435679,I
183617024,P
184414408,I
735510689,P
736238343,I
411642045,I
412690979,I
104232783,I (2 Replies)
SUBSTR(3) 1 SUBSTR(3)substr - Return part of a stringSYNOPSIS
string substr (string $string, int $start, [int $length])
DESCRIPTION
Returns the portion of $string specified by the $start and $length parameters.
PARAMETERS
o $string
- The input string. Must be one character or longer.
o $start
- If $start is non-negative, the returned string will start at the $start'th position in $string, counting from zero. For
instance, in the string ' abcdef', the character at position 0 is ' a', the character at position 2 is ' c', and so forth. If
$start is negative, the returned string will start at the $start'th character from the end of $string. If $string is less than or
equal to $start characters long, FALSE will be returned.
Example #1
Using a negative $start
<?php
$rest = substr("abcdef", -1); // returns "f"
$rest = substr("abcdef", -2); // returns "ef"
$rest = substr("abcdef", -3, 1); // returns "d"
?>
o $length
- If $length is given and is positive, the string returned will contain at most $length characters beginning from $start (depend-
ing on the length of $string). If $length is given and is negative, then that many characters will be omitted from the end of
$string (after the start position has been calculated when a $start is negative). If $start denotes the position of this trunca-
tion or beyond, false will be returned. If $length is given and is 0, FALSE or NULL, an empty string will be returned. If
$length is omitted, the substring starting from $start until the end of the string will be returned.
Example #2
Using a negative $length
<?php
$rest = substr("abcdef", 0, -1); // returns "abcde"
$rest = substr("abcdef", 2, -1); // returns "cde"
$rest = substr("abcdef", 4, -4); // returns false
$rest = substr("abcdef", -3, -1); // returns "de"
?>
RETURN VALUES
Returns the extracted part of $string; or FALSE on failure, or an empty string.
CHANGELOG
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
| Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
|5.2.2 - 5.2.6 | |
| | |
| | If the $start parameter indicates the position |
| | of a negative truncation or beyond, false is |
| | returned. Other versions get the string from |
| | start. |
| | |
+--------------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #3
Basic substr(3) usage
<?php
echo substr('abcdef', 1); // bcdef
echo substr('abcdef', 1, 3); // bcd
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 4); // abcd
echo substr('abcdef', 0, 8); // abcdef
echo substr('abcdef', -1, 1); // f
// Accessing single characters in a string
// can also be achieved using "square brackets"
$string = 'abcdef';
echo $string[0]; // a
echo $string[3]; // d
echo $string[strlen($string)-1]; // f
?>
Example #4
substr(3) casting behaviour
<?php
class apple {
public function __toString() {
return "green";
}
}
echo "1) ".var_export(substr("pear", 0, 2), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "2) ".var_export(substr(54321, 0, 2), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "3) ".var_export(substr(new apple(), 0, 2), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "4) ".var_export(substr(true, 0, 1), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "5) ".var_export(substr(false, 0, 1), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "6) ".var_export(substr("", 0, 1), true).PHP_EOL;
echo "7) ".var_export(substr(1.2e3, 0, 4), true).PHP_EOL;
?>
The above example will output:
1) 'pe'
2) '54'
3) 'gr'
4) '1'
5) false
6) false
7) '1200'
ERRORS /EXCEPTIONS
Returns FALSE on error.
Example #5
<?php
var_dump(substr('a', 1)); // bool(false)
?>
SEE ALSO strrchr(3), substr_replace(3), preg_match(3), trim(3), mb_substr(3), wordwrap(3), String access and modification by character.
PHP Documentation Group SUBSTR(3)