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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Simple awk script for positional replacement in text? Post 302341275 by JFS on Wednesday 5th of August 2009 12:01:19 PM
Old 08-05-2009
trying to do multiple replacements; not working

I got the single replacement to work. But when I try to chain up multiple commands, it's hit or miss.

Here's my input file, creatively named testfile1

Code:
2011AAAATAACAAAAAT
2012AAATTAACAAAAAT
2013AAATTAAGAAAAAT

here's the script

Code:
awk '{sub((substr($0,5,1)),"X");sub((substr($0,7,1)),"x");sub((substr($0,8,1)),"Y");sub((substr($0,10,1)),"z");print}' testfile1 > testfile6

and here's the output I get

Code:
2011XxYzTAACAAAAAT
2012XxzYTAACAAAAAT
2013XxzYTAAGAAAAAT

as opposed to what I hoped to get (and thought I asked for), which is

Code:
2011XAxyTzACAAAAAT
2012XAxyTzACAAAAAT
2013XAxyTzAGAAAAAT

is this a "first instance of a character" issue? I'm using the "terminal" function on a Mac, which I somehow believe is a BASH shell.
 

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWgawk | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Volatile | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for gawk is available on http://opensolaris.org. Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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