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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with AWK and Scripting! Post 302447080 by agama on Friday 20th of August 2010 10:33:10 PM

08-20-2010

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Originally Posted by SriJit

For the above, the input had in the first row of the matrix as two lines. According to the code, it reads the second line too and writes it to the output file in the same line. But it inserts another 0.00 when it reads the the beginning of the second line. I have highlighted it above.
How should I modify the code?

There is probably a trailing blank, or blanks on the first line. Initially I was deleting all trailing blanks, but that wouldn't work if the las 'value' on the line was really a blank set intended to be replaced with 0.00.

It could also be the way the data is aligned on the second row. If there is an extra space ahead of the data on the second line, that'd be a problem as well.

If either of these two problems is the cause, and its a single space that's causing the grief, then modify this line to have 4 spaces before the + instead of 2. If that doesn't work, then please post the first few lines, and it is important that you put them inside code tags to preserve the spacing.

Code:

gsub( "    +", " 0.00 ", buffer );   # 4 or more spaces causes 0.00 to insert

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NAME

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