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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Field separator in awk Post 302408432 by kshji on Monday 29th of March 2010 12:59:34 PM
Old 03-29-2010
If you need split one string to the fields, the awk is huge tool for that. You can use builtin properties (ksh93, bash, ...).
Code:
oifs="$IFS"        # save input field delemiter
IFS=":"             # set input fld delim.
flds=($TIME)     # parse input the array
fld1=${flds[0]}  # first field index is 0
numberOfFlds=${#flds[@]}
for var in fld1 numberOfFlds
do
      eval echo $var = \$$var
done

Or using read, this version works also with dash, ksh88, sh, ...
Code:
TIME=12:44
IFS=":" read fld1 fld2 xstr <<EOF
$TIME
EOF
for var in fld1 fld2
do
      eval echo $var = \$$var
done

 

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template::plugin::url

Template::Plugin::URL(3)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				  Template::Plugin::URL(3)

NAME

       Template::Plugin::URL - Plugin to construct complex URLs

SYNOPSIS

	   [% USE url('/cgi-bin/foo.pl') %]

	   [% url(debug = 1, id = 123) %]
	      # ==> /cgi/bin/foo.pl?debug=1&amp;id=123

	   [% USE mycgi = url('/cgi-bin/bar.pl', mode='browse', debug=1) %]

	   [% mycgi %]
	      # ==> /cgi/bin/bar.pl?mode=browse&amp;debug=1

	   [% mycgi(mode='submit') %]
	      # ==> /cgi/bin/bar.pl?mode=submit&amp;debug=1

	   [% mycgi(debug='d2 p0', id='D4-2k[4]') %]
	      # ==> /cgi-bin/bar.pl?mode=browse&amp;debug=d2%20p0&amp;id=D4-2k%5B4%5D

DESCRIPTION

       The "URL" plugin can be used to construct complex URLs from a base stem and a hash array of additional query parameters.

       The constructor should be passed a base URL and optionally, a hash array reference of default parameters and values.  Used from with a
       template, it would look something like the following:

	   [% USE url('http://www.somewhere.com/cgi-bin/foo.pl') %]
	   [% USE url('/cgi-bin/bar.pl', mode='browse') %]
	   [% USE url('/cgi-bin/baz.pl', mode='browse', debug=1) %]

       When the plugin is then called without any arguments, the default base and parameters are returned as a formatted query string.

	   [% url %]

       For the above three examples, these will produce the following outputs:

	   http://www.somewhere.com/cgi-bin/foo.pl
	   /cgi-bin/bar.pl?mode=browse
	   /cgi-bin/baz.pl?mode=browse&amp;debug=1

       Note that additional parameters are separated by '"&amp;"' rather than simply '"&"'.  This is the correct behaviour for HTML pages but is,
       unfortunately, incorrect when creating URLs that do not need to be encoded safely for HTML.  This is likely to be corrected in a future
       version of the plugin (most probably with TT3).	In the mean time, you can set $Template::Plugin::URL::JOINT to "&" to get the correct
       behaviour.

       Additional parameters may be also be specified to the URL:

	   [% url(mode='submit', id='wiz') %]

       Which, for the same three examples, produces:

	   http://www.somewhere.com/cgi-bin/foo.pl?mode=submit&amp;id=wiz
	   /cgi-bin/bar.pl?mode=browse&amp;id=wiz
	   /cgi-bin/baz.pl?mode=browse&amp;debug=1&amp;id=wiz

       A new base URL may also be specified as the first option:

	   [% url('/cgi-bin/waz.pl', test=1) %]

       producing

	   /cgi-bin/waz.pl?test=1
	   /cgi-bin/waz.pl?mode=browse&amp;test=1
	   /cgi-bin/waz.pl?mode=browse&amp;debug=1&amp;test=1

       The ordering of the parameters is non-deterministic due to fact that Perl's hashes themselves are unordered.  This isn't a problem as the
       ordering of CGI parameters is insignificant (to the best of my knowledge).  All values will be properly escaped thanks to some code
       borrowed from Lincoln Stein's "CGI" module.  e.g.

	   [% USE url('/cgi-bin/woz.pl') %]
	   [% url(name="Elrich von Benjy d'Weiro") %]

       Here the spaces and ""'"" character are escaped in the output:

	   /cgi-bin/woz.pl?name=Elrich%20von%20Benjy%20d%27Weiro

       An alternate name may be provided for the plugin at construction time as per regular Template Toolkit syntax.

	   [% USE mycgi = url('cgi-bin/min.pl') %]
	   [% mycgi(debug=1) %]

AUTHOR

       Andy Wardley <abw@wardley.org> <http://wardley.org/>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1996-2007 Andy Wardley.  All Rights Reserved.

       This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Template::Plugin

perl v5.12.1							    2008-11-13						  Template::Plugin::URL(3)
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