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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Delimted to padded conversion with unknown field length Post 302441449 by Michael Stora on Friday 30th of July 2010 07:42:20 PM
Old 07-30-2010
Thank you. Awk syntax looks a lot like C.


I think I understand what you are doing. You are using one program when it is the first run and another when it is the second. I'm trying to modify the script to ignore the length when there is only a single column on the line but I don’t understand the Awk language enough.

Code:
This is a long table header that is not data.
Year,Make,Model,Extras
1997,Ford,E350,variables
2000,Mercury,Cougar,examples



And I want:

Code:
This is a long table header that is not data.
Year  Make     Model   Extras     
1997  Ford     E350    variables  
2000  Mercury  Cougar  examples   



Instead of:

Code:
This is a long table header that is not data.
Year                                           Make     Model   Extras     
1997                                           Ford     E350    variables  
2000                                           Mercury  Cougar  examples   


Mike
 

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extract_font_range(3alleg4)					  Allegro manual				       extract_font_range(3alleg4)

NAME
extract_font_range - Extracts a range of characters from a font. Allegro game programming library. SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h> FONT *extract_font_range(FONT *f, int begin, int end) DESCRIPTION
This function extracts a character range from a font and returns a new font that contains only the range of characters selected by this function. You can pass -1 for either the lower or upper bound if you want to select all characters from the start or to the end of the font. Example: FONT *myfont; FONT *capitals; FONT *fontcopy; ... /* Create a font of only capital letters */ capitals = extract_font_range(myfont, 'A', 'Z'); /* Create a copy of the font */ fontcopy = extract_font_range(myfont, -1, -1); ... destroy_font(capitals); destroy_font(fontcopy); RETURN VALUE
Returns a pointer to the new font or NULL on error. Remember that you are responsible for destroying the font when you are finished with it to avoid memory leaks. SEE ALSO
get_font_range_begin(3alleg4), get_font_range_end(3alleg4), merge_fonts(3alleg4), transpose_font(3alleg4), exfont(3alleg4) Allegro version 4.4.2 extract_font_range(3alleg4)
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