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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Depending upon character at particular position, string needs to be appended Post 302263832 by Franklin52 on Tuesday 2nd of December 2008 03:20:25 PM
Old 12-02-2008
Use nawk, gawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris. You can also adjust the code of the 2nd block and use an if statement:

Code:
BEGIN {a["N"]="N ABC";a["X"]="P ABC";a["A"]="D ABC"}
if(substr($0,39,1)=="N" || substr($0,39,1)=="X" || substr($0,39,1)=="A") { # For the letters N, X, A
  val=substr($0,39,1)
  space=" "
  sub( substr($0,39,1) , space)
  printf "%-517s\n", $0 " " a[val]
}

Regards
 

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MB_STRRPOS(3)								 1							     MB_STRRPOS(3)

mb_strrpos - Find position of last occurrence of a string in a string

SYNOPSIS
int mb_strrpos (string $haystack, string $needle, [int $offset], [string $encoding = mb_internal_encoding()]) DESCRIPTION
Performs a multibyte safe strrpos(3) operation based on the number of characters. $needle position is counted from the beginning of $haystack. First character's position is 0. Second character position is 1. PARAMETERS
o $haystack - The string being checked, for the last occurrence of $needle o $needle - The string to find in $haystack. o $offset - May be specified to begin searching an arbitrary number of characters into the string. Negative values will stop searching at an arbitrary point prior to the end of the string. o $encoding -The $encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used. RETURN VALUES
Returns the numeric position of the last occurrence of $needle in the $haystack string. If $needle is not found, it returns FALSE. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------+ | 5.2.0 | | | | | | | Added the optional parameter $offset. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------+ NOTES
Note The $encoding parameter was moved from the third position to the fourth in PHP 5.2.0. For backward compatibility, $encoding can be specified as the third parameter, but doing so is deprecated and will be removed in the future. SEE ALSO
mb_strpos(3), mb_internal_encoding(3), strrpos(3). PHP Documentation Group MB_STRRPOS(3)
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