07-22-2009
replacing string in a column on a specific line
hi,
i currently have a file with columns similar to this
customer name owed
CID123 John 300
CID342 harry 500
at present i use use awk to find the amount owed by the customer using the customer ID (CID).
if the customer spends more money how would i go about using sed/awk etc to modify the amount they owe? (all the arithmetic is already working, i just need to know how to append the new value to the file under the owed column for the correct customer)
thanks for any pointers
skinnygav
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maxdb_fetch_lengths
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maxdb_fetch_lengths - Returns the lengths of the columns of the current row in the result set
Procedural style
SYNOPSIS
array maxdb_fetch_lengths (resource $result)
DESCRIPTION
Object oriented style
array$maxdb_result->lengths ()
The maxdb_fetch_lengths(3) function returns an array containing the lengths of every column of the current row within the result set rep-
resented by the $result parameter. If successful, a numerically indexed array representing the lengths of each column is returned or FALSE
on failure.
RETURN VALUES
An array of integers representing the size of each column (not including any terminating null characters). FALSE if an error occurred.
maxdb_fetch_lengths(3) is valid only for the current row of the result set. It returns FALSE if you call it before calling
maxdb_fetch_row/array/resource or after retrieving all rows in the result.
EXAMPLES
Example #1
Object oriented style
<?php
$maxdb = new maxdb("localhost", "MONA", "RED", "DEMODB");
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if (maxdb_connect_errno()) {
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$query = "SELECT * from hotel.customer WHERE cno = 3000";
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printf("Field %2d has Length %2d
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?>
Example #2
Procedural style
<?php
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