I'm working on formatting some attendance data to meet a vendors requirements to upload to their system. With some help on the forums here, I have the data close. But they've since changed what they want.
The vendor wants me to submit three fields to them. Field 1 is the studentid field,... (4 Replies)
I was trying to simplify this from what I'm actually doing, but I started getting even more confused so I gave up. Here is the content of my input file:
Academic year,Term,Course name,Period,Last name,Nickname
2012-2013,First Semester,English 12,7th Period,Davis,Lucille
When I do this:
... (3 Replies)
My source file is pipe delimeted file with 53 fields.In 33 rd column i am getting mutlple new line characters,dule to that record is breaking into multiple records.
Note : here record delimter also \n
sample Source file with 6 fields :
1234|abc| \nabcd \n bvd \n cde \n |678|890|900\n
... (6 Replies)
Dear All,
could you please help me to remove \n characters after all other replacements have been done as in the code below:
{
#remove punctuation and starting whitespaces
gsub("]"," ");
$1=$1;
}
{
#print lines containing 'whatever'
if ($1=="whatever")
{print}
#print... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I am looking for an awk script to do the following
Join the fields together only if the first 4 fields are same.
Can it be done with join function in awk??
a,b,c,d,8,,,
a,b,c,d,,7,,
a,b,c,d,,,9,
a,b,p,e,8,,,
a.b,p,e,,9,,
a,b,p,z,,,,9
a,b,p,z,,8,,
desired output:
... (1 Reply)
Hi experts,
I need to print the first field first then last two fields should come next and then i need to print rest of the fields.
Input :
a1,abc,jsd,fhf,fkk,b1,b2
a2,acb,dfg,ghj,b3,c4
a3,djf,wdjg,fkg,dff,ggk,d4,d5
Expected output:
a1,b1,b2,abc,jsd,fhf,fkk... (6 Replies)
I'm trying to compare 2 files for differences in a selct number of fields. When differnces are found it will write the whole record of the second file including appending '|C' out to a delta file. Each record will have 20 fields, but only want to do comparison of 1st 15 fields. The 1st field of... (7 Replies)
Hi All,
I receive a | delimited text file containing 63 columns. There is no delimiter at the end of the 63rd field, instead there would be a newline character at the end of the text in 63rd column. I wanted to retain this newline character at the end of the 63rd column, as it is desired newline... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have a file as below
<field1> <field2> <field3> ... <field_num1> <field_num2>
Trying to sort based on difference of <field_num1> and <field_num2> in desceding order and print all fields.
I tried this and it doesn't sort on the difference field .. Appreciate your help.
cat... (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: newstart
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LEARN ABOUT PHP
var_export
VAR_EXPORT(3) 1 VAR_EXPORT(3)var_export - Outputs or returns a parsable string representation of a variableSYNOPSIS
mixed var_export (mixed $expression, [bool $return = false])
DESCRIPTION var_export(3) gets structured information about the given variable. It is similar to var_dump(3) with one exception: the returned represen-
tation is valid PHP code.
PARAMETERS
o $expression
- The variable you want to export.
o $return
- If used and set to TRUE, var_export(3) will return the variable representation instead of outputting it.
RETURN VALUES
Returns the variable representation when the $return parameter is used and evaluates to TRUE. Otherwise, this function will return NULL.
NOTES
Note
When the $return parameter is used, this function uses internal output buffering so it cannot be used inside an ob_start(3) callback
function.
CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
|Version | |
| | |
| | Description |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
| 5.1.0 | |
| | |
| | Possibility to export classes and arrays con- |
| | taining classes using the __set_state() magic |
| | method. |
| | |
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+
EXAMPLES
Example #1
var_export(3) Examples
<?php
$a = array (1, 2, array ("a", "b", "c"));
var_export($a);
?>
The above example will output:
array (
0 => 1,
1 => 2,
2 =>
array (
0 => 'a',
1 => 'b',
2 => 'c',
),
)
<?php
$b = 3.1;
$v = var_export($b, true);
echo $v;
?>
The above example will output:
3.1
Example #2
Exporting classes since PHP 5.1.0
<?php
class A { public $var; }
$a = new A;
$a->var = 5;
var_export($a);
?>
The above example will output:
A::__set_state(array(
'var' => 5,
))
Example #3
Using __set_state() (since PHP 5.1.0)
<?php
class A
{
public $var1;
public $var2;
public static function __set_state($an_array)
{
$obj = new A;
$obj->var1 = $an_array['var1'];
$obj->var2 = $an_array['var2'];
return $obj;
}
}
$a = new A;
$a->var1 = 5;
$a->var2 = 'foo';
eval('$b = ' . var_export($a, true) . ';'); // $b = A::__set_state(array(
// 'var1' => 5,
// 'var2' => 'foo',
// ));
var_dump($b);
?>
The above example will output:
object(A)#2 (2) {
["var1"]=>
int(5)
["var2"]=>
string(3) "foo"
}
NOTES
Note
Variables of type resource couldn't be exported by this function.
Note
var_export(3) does not handle circular references as it would be close to impossible to generate parsable PHP code for that. If you
want to do something with the full representation of an array or object, use serialize(3).
Warning
When var_export(3) exports objects, the leading backslash is not included in the class name of namespaced classes for maximum com-
patibility.
SEE ALSO print_r(3), serialize(3), var_dump(3).
PHP Documentation Group VAR_EXPORT(3)