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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting parsing text three fields at a time Post 302361253 by weak_code-fu on Monday 12th of October 2009 06:56:10 PM
Old 10-12-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by scottn
Hi.

For the "three fields at a time" bit:

Code:
xargs -n3 < input_file

This should be shell in-specific.

What exactly do you want to do with the three fields?

I just want to take the text file which is full of numbers and passing the values (three at a time) into variables that I will use as arguments to pass into a function within the loop. I just don't know how to iterate through the file three fields/numbers at a time to assign every three numbers to x, y, and z variables. I hope I am making sense...


So the file would look something like this:

decimalnumber1 decimalnumber2 decimalnumber3 decimalnumber4 decimalnumber5 decimalnumber6 decimalnumber7 decimalnumber8 decimalnumber9 decimalnumber10...etc.

where decimalnumber1 decimalnumber2 decimalnumber3 need to be

x = decimalnumber1
y = decimalnumber2
z = decimalnumber3

and then decimalnumber4 decimalnumber5 decimalnumber6 need to be

x = decimalnumber4
y = decimalnumber5
z = decimalnumber6


and so on.
 

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DATEFMT_LOCALTIME(3)							 1						      DATEFMT_LOCALTIME(3)

IntlDateFormatter::localtime - Parse string to a field-based time value

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public array IntlDateFormatter::localtime (string $value, [int &$position]) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style array datefmt_localtime (IntlDateFormatter $fmt, string $value, [int &$position]) Converts string $value to a field-based time value ( an array of various fields), starting at $parse_pos and consuming as much of the input value as possible. PARAMETERS
o $fmt - The formatter resource o $value - string to convert to a time o $position - Position at which to start the parsing in $value (zero-based). If no error occurs before $value is consumed, $parse_pos will contain -1 otherwise it will contain the position at which parsing ended . If $parse_pos > strlen($value), the parse fails immedi- ately. RETURN VALUES
Localtime compatible array of integers : contains 24 hour clock value in tm_hour field EXAMPLES
Example #1 datefmt_localtime(3) example <?php $fmt = datefmt_create( 'en_US', IntlDateFormatter::FULL, IntlDateFormatter::FULL, 'America/Los_Angeles', IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN ); $arr = datefmt_localtime($fmt, 'Wednesday, December 31, 1969 4:00:00 PM PT', 0); echo 'First parsed output is '; if ($arr) { foreach ($arr as $key => $value) { echo "$key : $value , "; } } ?> Example #2 OO example <?php $fmt = new IntlDateFormatter( 'en_US', IntlDateFormatter::FULL, IntlDateFormatter::FULL, 'America/Los_Angeles', IntlDateFormatter::GREGORIAN ); $arr = $fmt->localtime('Wednesday, December 31, 1969 4:00:00 PM PT', 0); echo 'First parsed output is '; if ($arr) { foreach ($arr as $key => $value) { echo "$key : $value , "; } } ?> The above example will output: First parsed output is tm_sec : 0 , tm_min : 0 , tm_hour : 16 , tm_year : 1969 , tm_mday : 31 , tm_wday : 4 , tm_yday : 365 , tm_mon : 11 , tm_isdst : 0 , SEE ALSO
datefmt_create(3), datefmt_format(3), datefmt_parse(3), datefmt_get_error_code(3), datefmt_get_error_message(3). PHP Documentation Group DATEFMT_LOCALTIME(3)
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