You did good using the Schwarztian Transfrom to sort the data, but you're code doesn't take advantage of key caching, which makes the sort more efficient by calculating the sort keys only one time. Here it is modified to cache the sort keys:
I have some version of AWK that does not support regular expression field separators ( neither do I have nawk or gawk). How do I go about reading a line with the field separator as either the string "=#" or "+=".
My data looks like this:
abhishek=#nnnnn+#1234+#87
One option is to use... (2 Replies)
Hello...
Im trying to use "- " as field separator...
I used awk -F"- " '{print $3}' input_file ... but it's not working, it assumes that the field separator is "-" and not "- " ...
Any ideas ?? :(
Thanks (6 Replies)
Hi, all
I need to get fields in a line that are separated by commas, some of the fields are enclosed with double quotes, and they are supposed to be treated as a single field even if there are commas inside the quotes.
sample input:
for this line, 5 fields are supposed to be extracted, they... (8 Replies)
Hi,
I have a flat file with fields separated by a X'1F'
i have to fetch 4th field from second line.
please help me how to achieve it.
I tried with below command and its not working.
cut -f4 -d`echo -e '\x1f'` filename.txt
I am using SunOS.
Thanks in advance. (2 Replies)
Hi all,
I have an array in BASH and I need to change the IFS in order to split up it correctly.
Here an example:
array_test=(hello world+sunny)
for elem in ${array_test}; do
echo $elem
done
echo -e "\n changed IFS \n"
OLD_IFS=$IFS
IFS=+
for elem in ${array_test}; do
echo... (3 Replies)
Hi,
How i can use two strings as field separator..
I want to use filed separator's as < and >
input -
shdhd ads<adsd adfs >sdfsd sfsdfsd<
Please help me in this..:wall:
thanks a lot... (3 Replies)
Hi !
input:
111|222|333|aaa|bbb|ccc
999|888|777|nnn|kkk
444|666|555|eee|ttt|ooo|ppp
With awk, I am trying to change the FS "|" to "; " only from the 4th field until the end (the number of fields vary between records).
In order to get:
111|222|333|aaa; bbb; ccc
999|888|777|nnn; kkk... (1 Reply)
I need to set awk field separator to ";", but I need to avoid ";EXT".
so that
echo a;b;c;EXTd;e;f | awk -F";" '{print $3}'
would give "c;EXTd" (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I have a file, but I want to separate the file at a particular record with comma"," in the line
Input file
APPLE6SSAMSUNGS5PRICEPERPIECEDOLLAR600EACH010020340URX581949695US
to
Output file
APPLE6S,SAMSUNGS5,PRICEPERPIECE,DOLLAR600EACH,010020340URX581949695,US
This is for... (11 Replies)