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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting extract a field from a long sentence! Post 302506910 by dips_ag on Wednesday 23rd of March 2011 02:38:58 AM
Old 03-23-2011
Hi,

Thanks for the responses!

Quote:
danmero - I cannot have a file as input to awk command. I want to use the command in the loop only. And that is why I am echoing it before providing it as input to awk.
Quote:
kato - Not necessarily the o/p I need would be of number type i.e. 0-9.
Quote:
pravin27 - I am really not sure how it is working at your end. The version I have is
Code:
Linux xxxxxxxx 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:51:48 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

May be it helps to resolve the mystery! Smilie

-dips

---------- Post updated 2011-03-23 at 12:08 PM ---------- Previous update was 2011-03-22 at 06:06 PM ----------

Hi,

The problem got resolved. It was a very silly mistake! Smilie

Code:
while read line
do
var_len=`echo "$line" | awk -F\" '/^ *=/{print $2}' RS=LENGTH`
done < $file

I had to wrap the $line variable in double quotes to get it working.

-dips
 

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Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets; my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({ top => 5, bottom => 5, left => 5, right => 5 }); METHODS
Constructor new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets. Instance Methods as_array Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left. bottom Set/Get the inset from the bottom. equal_to Determine if these Insets are equal to another. left Set/Get the inset from the left. right Set/Get the inset from the right. top Set/Get the inset from the top. zero Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0. AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>" SEE ALSO
perl(1) COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)
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