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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with AWK and Scripting! Post 302447159 by agama on Saturday 21st of August 2010 12:07:42 PM

08-21-2010

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Thanks for posting the sample data -- very useful.

Small change. I was inserting an extra blank when joining multiple lines and that was causing the problem. Not sure why my test wasn't showing that, or maybe I wasn't looking closely enough.

Statements in bold were changed.

Code:

        awk '
        BEGIN {printf( "[" );   }               # opening bracket

        /]/  {
                if( last )
                        printf( "%s\n",  last );  # print the last one we saw

                if( partial )                           # add current line to partial buffer

                        buffer = partial substr( $0, indent );  # ditch leading spaces, but dont trash the "blank == 0" 
                else
                        buffer = $0;                    # no partial, just use current line

                gsub( ".*\\[", "[", buffer );      # trash all before [, but keep [
                gsub( "].*", "]", buffer );        # trash all after ], but keep ]
                gsub( "\\[", "", buffer );         # ditch opening bracket
                gsub( "]", "", buffer );           # ditch trailing bracket
                gsub( "  +", " 0.00 ", buffer );   # two or more spaces causes 0.00 to insert
                gsub( "  ", " ", buffer );         # cleanup if multiple spaces
                gsub( " $", "", buffer );          # cleanup trailing space if there
                gsub( "^ ", "", buffer );          # cleanup leading space if there

                last = buffer;               # save to add trailing ] if this is the last one
                join = 0;
                partial = "";

                next;
        }

        /\[/ {                                  # beginning of matrix, but not end
                indent = index( $0, "[" ) + 1;  # number of spaces to skip for secondary lines
                gsub( "^.*\\[", "[", $0 );      # ditch beginning junk
                partial = $0;                   # start a partial buffer
                join = 1;                       # join next line(s) if not end of matrix
                next;
        }

        join == 1 {
                buffer = substr( $0, indent )   # ditch leading spaces, but dont trash the "blank == 0"

                partial = partial buffer;       # add this line to the partial matrix (changed)
                next;
        }

        END {
                printf( "%s]\n", last );
        }
        '

Maybe this time! Have a great day.

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form_field_buffer(3X)													     form_field_buffer(3X)

NAME

       form_field_buffer - field buffer control

SYNOPSIS

       #include <form.h>
       int set_field_buffer(FIELD *field, int buf, const char *value);
       char *field_buffer(const FIELD *field, int buffer);
       int set_field_status(FIELD *field, bool status);
       bool field_status(const FIELD *field);
       int set_max_field(FIELD *field, int max);

DESCRIPTION

       The  function  set_field_buffer	sets the numbered buffer of the given field to contain a given string.	Buffer 0 is the displayed value of
       the field; other numbered buffers may be allocated by applications through the nbuf argument of (see form_field_new(3X)) but are not manip-
       ulated  by  the	forms  library.  The function field_buffer returns the address of the buffer.  Please note that this buffer has always the
       length of the buffer, that means that it may typically contain trailing spaces. If you entered leading spaces the buffer may  also  contain
       them.  If you want the raw data, you must write your own routine that copies the value out of the buffer and removes the leading and trail-
       ing spaces. Please note also, that subsequent operations on the form will probably change the content of the buffer. So don't  use  it  for
       long term storage of the entered form data.

       The  function  set_field_status sets the associated status flag of field; field_status gets the current value.  The status flag is set to a
       nonzero value whenever the field changes.

       The function set_max_field sets the maximum size for a dynamic field.  An argument of 0 turns off  any  maximum	size  threshold  for  that
       field.

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PORTABILITY

       These routines emulate the System V forms library.  They were not supported on Version 7 or BSD versions.

AUTHORS

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