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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users awk help Post 302203242 by mohan705 on Saturday 7th of June 2008 07:53:23 AM
Old 06-07-2008
Hi ,
Thanks for your reply .I have one more question,This below one give the max length of each column .Instead of specifying the column type every time,it has to display all columns maximun length

a.txt

10|20|xxxxx|yyy|c
20|30|xxxxxxxxx|yyyyyyyyyyyy|z
40|50|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|yyy|C



cat a.txt |awk -F "|" 'BEGIN{max=0}{if(length($3)>max)max=length($3)} END {print max}'
/
16 (max length of 3rd column)

how can get all columns max length using awk.

Expecting o/p
2 2 16 12 1

Thanks in advance
MR
 

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mlib_MatrixMaximum_U8(3MLIB)				    mediaLib Library Functions				      mlib_MatrixMaximum_U8(3MLIB)

NAME
mlib_MatrixMaximum_U8, mlib_MatrixMaximum_S8, mlib_MatrixMaximum_S16, mlib_MatrixMaximum_S32, mlib_MatrixMaximum_F32, mlib_MatrixMaxi- mum_D64 - find the maximum value in a matrix SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lmlib [ library... ] #include <mlib.h> mlib_status mlib_MatrixMaximum_U8(mlib_u8 *max, const mlib_u8 *x, mlib_s32 m, mlib_s32 n); mlib_status mlib_MatrixMaximum_S8(mlib_s8 *max, const mlib_s8 *x, mlib_s32 m, mlib_s32 n); mlib_status mlib_MatrixMaximum_S16(mlib_s16 *max, const mlib_s16 *x, mlib_s32 m, mlib_s32 n); mlib_status mlib_MatrixMaximum_S32(mlib_s32 *max, const mlib_s32 *x, mlib_s32 m, mlib_s32 n); mlib_status mlib_MatrixMaximum_F32(mlib_f32 *max, const mlib_f32 *x, mlib_s32 m, mlib_s32 n); mlib_status mlib_MatrixMaximum_D64(mlib_d64 *max, const mlib_d64 *x, mlib_s32 m, mlib_s32 n); DESCRIPTION
Each of these functions finds the maximum value of all elements in a matrix. It uses the following equation: max[0] = MAX{ x[i] i = 0, 1, ..., (m*n - 1) } PARAMETERS
Each of the functions takes the following arguments: max Pointer to the maximum value. x Pointer to the first element of the source matrix. m Number of rows in the source matrix. n Number of columns in the source matrix. RETURN VALUES
Each of the functions returns MLIB_SUCCESS if successful. Otherwise it returns MLIB_FAILURE. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
mlib_MatrixMinimum_U8(3MLIB), mlib_VectorMaximum_U8(3MLIB), mlib_VectorMinimum_U8(3MLIB), attributes(5) SunOS 5.11 2 Mar 2007 mlib_MatrixMaximum_U8(3MLIB)
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