05-16-2008
Adding columns to a file
I want to select the first column from a daily file called foo.csv. The result is written to file foo.txt. Currently the following script is used for that:
cut -d, -f 1 foo.csv > foo.txt
A typical result would yield :
A12
A45
B11
B67
What needs to happen in addition is that two columns need to be added before writing to file, namely a code (say 'abc') and the current date, such that a typical result would yield :
abc 2008-05-20 A12
abc 2008-05-20 A45
abc 2008-05-20 B11
abc 2008-05-20 B67
How can this be achieved in particular if the date (column 2) should be today's date?
Last edited by figaro; 05-16-2008 at 05:37 PM..
Reason: Simplification of problem
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PDL::Char -- PDL subclass which allows reading and writing of fixed-length character strings as byte PDLs
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# ['abc' 'foo' 'ghi']
# ['jkl' 'mno' 'pqr']
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# ['abc' 'def' 'ghi']
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