09-28-2008
Hey Franklin,
A strange thing is happening with the output, and I believe it is due to the fact that the columns contain spaces and lots of text.
The script took the spaces in Column0 and made them into new columns, then trimmed the new Column2.
My original data reads like this:
Column 0 is the product name:
"Shure KSM109 Condenser Microphone"
Column 1 is description, which is a paragraph of text:
"The Shure KSM109 offers incredible performance for its price. It combines an extended...."
Column 2 is the Manufacturer code, which needs to be trimmed:
SHUKSM109SL <---(I need to chop SHU)
The output data is looking like this:
Column 0: "Shure"
Column 1: "KSM100"
Column 2: "denser"
So basically it looks like it is treating spaces as tabs. I really appreciate it this help Franklin - thanks so much!
- Rick
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IGAWK(1) Utility Commands IGAWK(1)
NAME
igawk - gawk with include files
SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ...
igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ...
DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1).
AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like
@include getopt.awk
in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path.
OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports.
EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk
@include getopt.awk
BEGIN {
while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1)
...
}
EOF
igawk -f test.awk
SEE ALSO
gawk(1)
Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995.
AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com).
Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)