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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting reformating non-uniform strings Post 302438747 by lordsmiter on Tuesday 20th of July 2010 04:15:52 PM
Old 07-20-2010
Question reformating non-uniform strings
I have a set of free-form phone numbers that are not uniform and I want to reformat them into a standard uniform string. These are embedded at the end of a colon seperated file built by a large nawk + tr piping like such:

Code:
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:(333)333-3333x33333
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:x44444
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:(555)-555-5555
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:66666
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:777 - 777 - 7777
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:(888)888-8888
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:999.999.9999

Note: Row 1 & 3 are extensions that would come out to 444-444-4444 & 666-666-6666 from an outside line respectively. So the output would need to be:

Code:
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:333-333-3333
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:444-444-4444
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:555-555-5555
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:666-666-6666
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:777-777-7777
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:888-888-8888
XXXXX:YYYYY:ZZZZZ:999-999-9999

Is there a way to build a template with arrays or something similar. I have tried several things with awk and IFS, but can't seem to adequately break up these into array's by each byte. Solving this is step 1.

Step 2 is how do I incorporate this solution into a 3 step piping so that only 1 file is created during the script. No temporary files allowed. So it would need to occur like this:

Code:
nawk 'large string of operations to join 2 files' File1 File2 | tr -d ' ' | "this phone number solution" > output.txt

Is this the best way to approach this? I don't want to do nawk + "tr" to remove whitespace and create output.txt, then come back through and do the phone number solution on output.txt to create new_output.txt. It all needs to be done in one swoop without the temp file unless you can rewrite the new phone number to the output.txt file after its generated.
 

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clarnv

clarnv.f(3)							      LAPACK							       clarnv.f(3)

NAME

       clarnv.f -

SYNOPSIS

   Functions/Subroutines
       subroutine clarnv (IDIST, ISEED, N, X)
	   CLARNV returns a vector of random numbers from a uniform or normal distribution.

Function/Subroutine Documentation
   subroutine clarnv (integerIDIST, integer, dimension( 4 )ISEED, integerN, complex, dimension( * )X)
       CLARNV returns a vector of random numbers from a uniform or normal distribution.

       Purpose:

	    CLARNV returns a vector of n random complex numbers from a uniform or
	    normal distribution.

       Parameters:
	   IDIST

		     IDIST is INTEGER
		     Specifies the distribution of the random numbers:
		     = 1:  real and imaginary parts each uniform (0,1)
		     = 2:  real and imaginary parts each uniform (-1,1)
		     = 3:  real and imaginary parts each normal (0,1)
		     = 4:  uniformly distributed on the disc abs(z) < 1
		     = 5:  uniformly distributed on the circle abs(z) = 1

	   ISEED

		     ISEED is INTEGER array, dimension (4)
		     On entry, the seed of the random number generator; the array
		     elements must be between 0 and 4095, and ISEED(4) must be
		     odd.
		     On exit, the seed is updated.

	   N

		     N is INTEGER
		     The number of random numbers to be generated.

	   X

		     X is COMPLEX array, dimension (N)
		     The generated random numbers.

       Author:
	   Univ. of Tennessee

	   Univ. of California Berkeley

	   Univ. of Colorado Denver

	   NAG Ltd.

       Date:
	   September 2012

       Further Details:

	     This routine calls the auxiliary routine SLARUV to generate random
	     real numbers from a uniform (0,1) distribution, in batches of up to
	     128 using vectorisable code. The Box-Muller method is used to
	     transform numbers from a uniform to a normal distribution.

       Definition at line 100 of file clarnv.f.

Author
       Generated automatically by Doxygen for LAPACK from the source code.

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