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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing inserted newlines from a fileld of fixed width file. Post 302345560 by enigma_1 on Wednesday 19th of August 2009 02:27:35 PM
Old 08-19-2009
Thanks vgersh !!

The code you provided worked for me for the records broken into two.
But I have some more problems. Hope you can help.
As ytou mentioned in your assumption that record is divided into two records only.
Unfortunately In my file I have just one record which is divided into three records.

Sample:
Code:
33333 <fixed spaces such as 6> description 
for 
33333 <fixed spaces such as 6> some more field to the record of 33333

which needs to be :

Code:
33333 <fixed spaces such as 6> description for 33333 <fixed spaces such as 6> some more field to the record of 33333

Can we have some modification to the enigma.awk program to take care of record break to three records?? If I can ask for more, Can we have the code to take care of any level of record break heirarchy for each record?
I guess you need some identification for each records start.

In my file each new record starts from column(length)= 16. If any record starts from before length 16, it is continuation of previous record.

Thank you once again!
 

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PX_PUT_RECORDN(3)					     Library Functions Manual						 PX_PUT_RECORDN(3)

NAME
PX_put_recordn -- Stores record in Paradox file at certain position SYNOPSIS
#include <paradox.h> int PX_put_recordn(pxdoc_t *pxdoc, char *data, int recpos) DESCRIPTION
Stores a record in the buffer data into a Paradox file at the given position recpos. The first position has number 0. The function will determine the data block for this record. If the position is after the last data block, then as many as needed empty data blocks will be added. If the position is in the middle of a data block and there is no record right before the position, then the position will be recal- culated to make sure the new record will be stored in the first free slot of the datablock. For example, if a datablock contains H records and the first call of PX_put_recordn wants to store a record at postion 11, then this will be corrected to position H. PX_put_recordn will also add an empty data block and store the record as the first record of the second data block. Storing a second record at position 11 again, will be executed without any position change. data must be constructed with PX_put_data_xxx(3) functions before. It is of the same structure as the record returned by PX_get_record(3) and PX_get_record2(3). RETURN VALUE
Returns the record position on success and -1 on failure. The first position has number 0. SEE ALSO
PX_get_record(3), PX_get_record2(3), PX_put_record(3), PX_put_data_byte(3), PX_put_data_short(3), PX_put_data_long(3), PX_put_data_dou- ble(3), PX_put_data_alpha(3) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Uwe Steinmann uwe@steinmann.cx. PX_PUT_RECORDN(3)
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