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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers string manipulation Post 302201824 by zaxxon on Tuesday 3rd of June 2008 08:32:58 AM
Old 06-03-2008
@vgersh99
You always cut the last 5 characters, no matter if he needs 4 or 6 like in the other rows.

@Franklin52
Yep, that's true. You have to know the possibilties of your file-to-be-parsed very well to limit the chances of unwanted behaviour.

So for the input presented we can say that when at least 5 zeros are in a row, that we can use them to separate the last digits we want:
Code:
sed 's/.*00000\([^0]*\)/\1/'

This will at least make sure, that even if you have 1 up to 4 zero in your last digits, the will be separated ie. parsed correctly. If you have at the end a "600000", you have a problem again. For this I don't have a good solution, as I just thought, that there at least a number of zeros following each other before the last digits come, you want.
If you know that the last digits are always not more than 6 digits, you can parse them like vgersh99 did, ie. add a dot or write it another way and after that cut off all leading zeros.


EDIT: @vgersh99
Oh you saw it already while I was writing Smilie
 

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PLGXAX(3plplot) 						    PLplot API							   PLGXAX(3plplot)

NAME
plgxax - Get x axis parameters SYNOPSIS
plgxax(digmax, digits) DESCRIPTION
Returns current values of the digmax and digits flags for the x axis. digits is updated after the plot is drawn, so this routine should only be called after the call to plbox(3plplot) (or plbox3(3plplot)) is complete. See the PLplot documentation for more information. Redacted form: plgxax(digmax, digits) This function is used in example 31. ARGUMENTS
digmax (PLINT *, output) Pointer to variable with the maximum number of digits for the x axis. If nonzero, the printed label has been switched to a floating point representation when the number of digits exceeds digmax. digits (PLINT *, output) Pointer to variable with the actual number of digits for the numeric labels (x axis) from the last plot. AUTHORS
Geoffrey Furnish and Maurice LeBrun wrote and maintain PLplot. This man page was automatically generated from the DocBook source of the PLplot documentation, maintained by Alan W. Irwin and Rafael Laboissiere. SEE ALSO
PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/resources. August, 2012 PLGXAX(3plplot)
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