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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting remove blank spaces from fields Post 302325974 by vgersh99 on Tuesday 16th of June 2009 04:52:48 PM

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06-16-2009

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Code:

nawk -F'|' '
  function trim(str) {
      sub("^[ ]*)", "", str); sub("[ ]*$", "", str)
      return str
  }
  {
     for(i=1; i<=NF; i++)
        $i=trim($i)
     print
  }' OFS='|' myFile

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

concat

concat(1T)						       Tcl Built-In Commands							concat(1T)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       concat - Join lists together

SYNOPSIS

       concat ?arg arg ...?
_________________________________________________________________

DESCRIPTION

       This  command  joins  each of its arguments together with spaces after trimming leading and trailing white-space from each of them.  If all
       the arguments are lists, this has the same effect as concatenating them into a single list.  It permits any number of arguments; if no args
       are supplied, the result is an empty string.

EXAMPLES

       Although concat will concatenate lists (so the command:
	      concat a b {c d e} {f {g h}}
       will return "a b c d e f {g h}" as its result), it will also concatenate things that are not lists, and hence the command:
	      concat " a b {c	" d "  e} f"
       will return "a b {c d e} f" as its result.

       Note that the concatenation does not remove spaces from the middle of its arguments, so the command:
	      concat "a   b   c" { d e f }
       will return "a	b   c d e f" (i.e. with three spaces between the a, the b and the c).

SEE ALSO

       append(1T), eval(1T)

KEYWORDS

       concatenate, join, lists

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Availability	    | SUNWTcl	      |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
       |Interface Stability | Uncommitted     |
       +--------------------+-----------------+
NOTES

       Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org.

Tcl									8.3								concat(1T)