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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting awk array index help Post 302300549 by uwork72 on Tuesday 24th of March 2009 11:43:51 AM
Old 03-24-2009
awk array index help

Code:
$ cat file.txt
A|X|20
A|Y|20
A|X|30
A|Z|20
B|X|10
A|Y|40

Summing up $NF based on first 2 fields,

$ awk -F "|" 'BEGIN {OFS="|"}
{ sum[$1 OFS $2] += $NF }
END { for (f in sum) print f,sum[f] }
' file.txt

o/p:

A|X|50
A|Y|60
A|Z|20
B|X|10

Works !!

Wondering if we can assign the "$1 OFS $2" part in some variable so that

$ var="$1 OFS $2"

And something like this will work 

$ awk -v x=$var -F "|" 'BEGIN {OFS="|"}
{ sum[x] += $NF }
END { for (f in sum) print f,sum[f] }
' file.txt

Presently its not working. The reason I have posted this : I have to sum based on a lot of fields and I want to make it kind of configurable outside awk. Please.

 

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NAME
sum - calculate a sum(1) compatible checksum SYNOPSIS
package require Tcl 8.2 package require sum ?1.0? ::crc::sum ?-format format? message ::crc::sum ?-format format? -filename file DESCRIPTION
This package provides a Tcl-only implementation of the sum(1) command which calculates a 16 bit checksum value from the input data. The BSD sum algorithm is used by default but the SysV algorithm is also available. COMMANDS
::crc::sum ?-format format? message ::crc::sum ?-format format? -filename file The command takes string data or a file name and returns a checksum value calculated using the sum(1) algorithm. The result is for- matted using the format(n) specifier provided or as an unsigned integer (%u) by default. OPTIONS
-filename name Return a checksum for the file contents instead of for parameter data. -format string Return the checksum using an alternative format template. EXAMPLES
% crc::sum "Hello, World!" 37287 % crc::sum -format 0x%X "Hello, World!" 0x91A7 % crc::sum -file sum.tcl 13392 SEE ALSO
sum(1), cksum(n), crc32(n) AUTHORS
Pat Thoyts KEYWORDS
sum, cksum, checksum, crc, crc32, cyclic redundancy check, data integrity, security crc 1.0 sum(n)
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