Thanks for the explanation. Im learning, but strangely, it seems that our systems are treating this code differently.
This script (without the if and next statements towards the end):
applied to your source text:
with a length of 13, results in properly parsed text:
I tried to figure out which version of awk I have, but apparently it is not easy to do so. I am running os x client 10.4.11. On Apple's opensource distribution page, they list "awk-7" as an available download. I wonder how I can find out the version I am using, and if it makes sense that it's a different version of awk that accounts for the difference in output.
Hello ,
I have the folowing scenario :
I have a text file as follows : (say name.txt)
ABC
DEF
XYZ
And I have one more xml file as follows : (say somexml.xml)
<Name>ABC</Name>
<Age>12</Age>
<Class>D</Class>
<Name>XYZ</Name>
<Age>12</Age>
<Class>D</Class>
<Name>DEF</Name>... (7 Replies)
Might anyone know how to make a nbsp (160|0xA0) character? I am using a Dell Latitude D620 running Windows XP and then starting Exceed 9.0 defaulting to native window emulation for my X (us.kbf keymapping) (Latin-1 symbol set I believe) and calling an xterm (fontdefault, whatever that might be)... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
Today when I was working on a script to generate custom wordlist. So I ran a script and the output was directed to /tmp.
The disk space was around 19 gb. While the script was running, I decided to direct the o/p file to my 1TB drive. So I broke the run using Ctrl + C.
Now when I... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I have a space delimited text file that looks like the following:
BUD31 YRI 2e-06:CXorf15 YRI 3e-06:CREB1 YRI 4e-06
FLJ21438 CEU 3e-07:ETS1 CEU 8e-07:FGD3 CEU 2e-06
I want to modify the text file so that everytime there is a ":", a new line is introduced so that the document looks... (3 Replies)
This code shal search for the non-breaking space 0xA0 though it returns the error "fatal: attempt to use scalar 'nbs' as array" Can somebody help?
awk --non-decimal-data -v nbs="0xA0" '{if($0 in nbs) {print FILENAME, NR}}' *.txt (1 Reply)
Hi,
I have a file which contains many lines. Some of them are longer than 50 chars. I want to break those lines but I don't want to break words, e.g. the file
This is an exemplary text which should be broken aaaaaa bbbbb ccccc
This is the second line
This line should also be broken... (3 Replies)
My source file is pipe delimeted file with 53 fields.In 33 rd column i am getting mutlple new line characters,dule to that record is breaking into multiple records.
Note : here record delimter also \n
sample Source file with 6 fields :
1234|abc| \nabcd \n bvd \n cde \n |678|890|900\n
... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have a shell script which automates reporting and at times, requires the report line to be very long (sometimes as long as 2131 chars). The output I get is similar to this:
XXXX XXXXXXX 16:15 3.24% 5.07% 3.69% 5.23% 3.68% 4.06% 3.57% 5.03% 4.31% 5.11% 3.49% 4.19% 4.31% ... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: gilberteu
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LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
english5.18
English(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide English(3pm)NAME
English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
SYNOPSIS
use English;
use English qw( -no_match_vars ) ; # Avoids regex performance penalty
# in perl 5.16 and earlier
...
if ($ERRNO =~ /denied/) { ... }
DESCRIPTION
This module provides aliases for the built-in variables whose names no one seems to like to read. Variables with side-effects which get
triggered just by accessing them (like $0) will still be affected.
For those variables that have an awk version, both long and short English alternatives are provided. For example, the $/ variable can be
referred to either $RS or $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR if you are using the English module.
See perlvar for a complete list of these.
PERFORMANCE
NOTE: This was fixed in perl 5.20. Mentioning these three variables no longer makes a speed difference. This section still applies if
your code is to run on perl 5.18 or earlier.
This module can provoke sizeable inefficiencies for regular expressions, due to unfortunate implementation details. If performance matters
in your application and you don't need $PREMATCH, $MATCH, or $POSTMATCH, try doing
use English qw( -no_match_vars ) ;
. It is especially important to do this in modules to avoid penalizing all applications which use them.
perl v5.18.2 2014-01-06 English(3pm)