Hi Guys,
While I was writing one shell script , I just got struck at this point.
I need to extract words from a file at some specified position and do some comparison operation and need to replace the extracted word with another word.
Eg : I like Orange very much.
I need to replace... (19 Replies)
Hi
Im trying to extract a specific pattern of data from a log file and store it in a other file, Im executing the below command in various files and storing it in a single file. I data that Im storing needs to be arranged based on a date and timestamp. Please assist, how to achieve this. Thanks... (1 Reply)
Hi Gurus,
I've been having some problem in extracting the log data based on the current date and month.
As shown in the sample data below, how to extract the log info for Aug 11?
Sample data:
root pts/ta userpc Wed Aug 11 09:46 - 20:21 (10:35)
root pts/ta userpc... (13 Replies)
I have a huge file (about 2 millions records) contains data separated by “,” (comma). As part of the requirement, I can't change the format. The objective is to remove some of the records with the following condition. If the 23rd field on each line start with 302 , I need to remove that from the... (4 Replies)
How to extract multiple data based on character position. I need to fetch from 7-9 and 22-26 and there is no delimiter for 22-26 since it is part of the column. The file may have more than 1000 character long.I managed to pull any one but not both
for example
test data
12345 zxc vbnmlk... (1 Reply)
I have a csv file that I need to extract some data from depending on another field after reading info from another text file.
The text file would say have 592560 in it.
The csv file may have some data like so
Field 1 Field2 Field3 Field4 Field5 Field6
20009756 1 ... (9 Replies)
Hi, I have a file1 of many long sequences, each preceded by a unique header line. file2 is 3-columns list: headers name, start position, end position. I'd like to extract the sequence region of file1 specified in file2.
Based on a post elsewhere, I found the code:
awk... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a file with multiple lines(fixed width dat file). I want to search for '02' in the positions 45-46 and if available, in that lines, I need to replace value in position 359 with blank. As I am new to unix, I am not able to figure out how to do this. Can you please help me to achieve... (9 Replies)
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xmtextfindstring
XmTextFindString(3X)XmTextFindString(3X)NAME
XmTextFindString - A Text function that finds the beginning position of a text string
SYNOPSIS
#include <Xm/Xm.h>
Boolean XmTextFindString (widget, start, string, direction, position)
Widget widget;
XmTextPosition start;
char *string;
XmTextDirection direction;
XmTextPosition *position;
DESCRIPTION
XmTextFindString locates the beginning position of a specified text string. This routine searches forward or backward for the first occur-
rence of the string starting from the given start position. If it finds a match, the function returns the position of the first character
of the string in position. Specifies the Text widget ID. Specifies the character position from which the search proceeds. This is an
integer number of characters from the beginning of the text buffer. The first character position is 0. Specifies the search string.
Indicates the search direction. It is relative to the primary direction of the text. The possible values are: The search proceeds toward
the end of the text buffer. The search proceeds toward the beginning of the text buffer. Specifies the pointer in which the first charac-
ter position of the string match is returned. This is an integer number of characters from the beginning of the buffer. The first charac-
ter position is 0. If the function returns False, this value is undefined.
For a complete definition of Text and its associated resources, see XmText(3X).
RETURN VALUE
Returns True if a string match is found; otherwise, returns False.
SEE ALSO XmText(3X), XmTextFindStringWcs(3X)XmTextFindString(3X)