OK This one has me stumped. I have the following line,
program name - the program description that can also contain a hyphen - character.
I'm need to separate the "program name" from the program description.
I've tried using an array function with the - as delimiter, but I ran into a problem when I discovered some of the files I'm handling contain this second hyphen.
Using this code results in output that's out of order:
Output:
I use the array1[1] no problem, but how do I use the 2+ arrays?
I'm open to alternate methods for splitting this line of text.
I use SAS (a statistical software) and have to remove last character or the last 1/2 numbers that appear after characters from the string using Perl Regular Expression (which is recognized by SAS).
Input: f183ii10 f183ii2 f182ii1 f182ii2 f183iim f22ii f22ii11 f22ii12 pmh4 pmhm
Desired... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I would like to find an efficient way to compare a pair of strings that differ at one position, and return the difference and position.
For example:
String1 123456789
String2 123454789
returning something - position 6, 6/4
Thanks in advance,
Mike (5 Replies)
Hello Can Any1 help me.
I want to replace a specific character string inside a file at a specific location with a particular character with the help of a command or a shell script.
The tr command replaces a specific character with another for all the occurences of that character in the file.
I... (5 Replies)
Hi!
I am not a whiz at awk and very unsure about the aplication of awk solve my problem. I was hoping for some quick pointers so I can figure this out.
I have a file that looks like so:
label.Asked=\u8CEA\u554F\u6E08\u307F
button.Edit=\u7DE8\u96C6... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I want to writte a script that replace two character strings by two variables with the command sed butmy solution doesn't work. I'm written this: sed "s/TTFactivevent/$TTFav/g && s/switchSLL/$SLL/g" templatefile.
I want to replace TTFactivevent by the variable $TTFav, that is a... (4 Replies)
This might be a dummy question, but is there a command in UNIX that compare two strings character-by-character and display the difference?
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Or probably what I'm looking is how to break a string into... (3 Replies)
I have a variable containing a list of strings, and want to create a string with the first character being -.
Example:
var="-name fred paul -surname winnett dimech"
I want a string, namely
errStr="-name -surname" (2 Replies)
Greetings.
I have a file with information like this:
AMNDHRKEOEU?AMNDHRKEOEU?AMNDHRKEOEU?AMNDHRKEOEU?
AMNDHRKEEU?AMNDHREOEU?
AMNDHREU?AHRKEOEU?AMNDHRKEU?AMNDKEOEU?
What I need to extract is the position, in every line, of every occurrence of '?'
A desired output would be something... (6 Replies)
Here is my task, I feel sure this can be accomplished with see/awk but can't seem to figure out how.
I have large flat file from which I need to extract every case of a pairing of characters (GG) in this case PLUS the previous 20 characters. The output should be a list (which I plan to make... (17 Replies)
Hi all,
I need to remove DBPATH= and /db from the string below using awk (or sed, as it also exists on the machine).
Input: DBPATH=/some/path/database/db
Desired output: /some/path/database
Thank you! (8 Replies)