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08-19-2008

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Awk Functions

Hi all.
I have a simple shell script shown below which calls an awk function and then print valid or invalid depending on the return value:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

cat file.CSV| nawk -f validate '
BEGIN { FS=","; counter=0}

{
        FS=",";
        gsub("\"","")
        valid=validate($1);
        if (valid == 1)
                print "INVALID";
        else
                print "VALID"
        
}

When i run this script I get no output at all. The script runs but nothing seems to happen. However when i include the function, shown below, in the script it runs as expected.

Code:

function validate(object)
{
        #populates an array List 
        if(object in stationList){
                return 0;}
        else{
                return 1;}
}

I dont want to have to include the functions code in every script I write and I was under the impression that using -f validate when starting nawk would let me then call the function from within my script.
Any ideas or help with this would be appreciated.

Thanks

pxy2d1

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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       It is a script that validates a modes.xml file against the apertium structural modes DTD using the xmllint utility.

OPTIONS

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FILES

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       modes.dtd The DTD used to validate the input file.

SEE ALSO

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