Thankyou once again m1xram for your detailed & insightful ideas.
Your code does a great job and actually outputs much more information that I had expected - but thats because of my superficial problem description. Nonetheless, it will be a valuable resource for me.
In the interim I did some tinkering with my crude code, and it seems to work too - though outputting much less. What I ultimately was trying to achieve was to insert a new field that calculates the frequency of "," or "." in my string relative to "[a-zA-Z]" - BUT once all those same characters with either $ or ~^ next to them had been removed (those extra characters act as indicators/modifiers of their adjacent character).
Despite what I'd thought, split does seem to search for groups of characters if you enclose them in parentheses.
This is my input data:
$8 is the stringof interest. $7 is the number of "characters" in $8, where a character with a modifier like A$ is treated as one single character. $9 is the frequency of . or , in the $8 string.
The code I used was:
Which gave me an outputs of:
This adds the new frequencies, and the number of "non-modified" characters in the $8 string. You can see that where there are $ in the string the new & old frequencies differ as does the number of "characters" in the string, but otherwise they remain unchanged.
Cheers,
Olly
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tzselect
TZSELECT(8) System Manager's Manual TZSELECT(8)NAME
tzselect - select a time zone
SYNOPSIS
tzselect
DESCRIPTION
The tzselect program asks the user for information about the current location, and outputs the resulting time zone description to standard
output. The output is suitable as a value for the TZ environment variable.
All interaction with the user is done via standard input and standard error.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
AWK Name of a Posix-compliant awk program (default: awk).
TZDIR Name of the directory containing time zone data files (default: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo).
FILES
TZDIR/iso3166.tab
Table of ISO 3166 2-letter country codes and country names.
TZDIR/zone.tab
Table of country codes, latitude and longitude, TZ values, and descriptive comments.
TZDIR/TZ
Time zone data file for time zone TZ.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is zero if a time zone was successfully obtained from the user, nonzero otherwise.
SEE ALSO newctime(3), tzfile(5), zdump(8), zic(8)TZSELECT(8)