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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting scripting help with bash and awk Post 302321131 by garethsays on Saturday 30th of May 2009 10:18:43 AM
Old 05-30-2009
here is my attempt...a very ugly script and not very portable but seems to do the job now.....
thanks for your input....all sorted now....thanks

fold input_file| egrep "^ [0-2]" > tides1
nl tides1 > tides2
awk 'BEGIN{print "key key"
print "day hourmin tide" }
{printf "%d %s%s %s\n",($1/73 + 152), substr($2,1,2),substr($2,4,5), $3}' tides2 > output_file
rm tides1 tides2

-----Post Update-----

here is my attempt...a very ugly script and not very portable but seems to do the job now.....
thanks for your input....all sorted now....thanks

fold input_file| egrep "^ [0-2]" > tides1
nl tides1 > tides2
awk 'BEGIN{print "key key"
print "day hourmin tide" }
{printf "%d %s%s %s\n",($1/73 + 152), substr($2,1,2),substr($2,4,5), $3}' tides2 > output_file
rm tides1 tides2
 

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Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitLvalueSubstr - Use 4-argument "substr" instead of writing "substr($foo, 2, 6) = $bar". AFFILIATION
This Policy is part of the core Perl::Critic distribution. DESCRIPTION
Conway discourages the use of "substr()" as an lvalue, instead recommending that the 4-argument version of "substr()" be used instead. substr($something, 1, 2) = $newvalue; # not ok substr($something, 1, 2, $newvalue); # ok The four-argument form of "substr()" was introduced in Perl 5.005. This policy does not report violations on code which explicitly specifies an earlier version of Perl (e.g. "use 5.004;"). CONFIGURATION
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"substr" in perlfunc (or "perldoc -f substr"). "4th argument to substr" in perl5005delta AUTHOR
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