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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting using awk for setting variable but change the output of this variable within awk Post 302546348 by Cowardly on Thursday 11th of August 2011 03:43:26 AM
Old 08-11-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by dude2cool
here is a possible solution. You may have to tweak it to the input.

split($9,a,"/")
dept=a[2]
This is really good.. And it works as well Smilie Many thanks!

Could you explain a bit more about the variable?
- What does the a mean in the split ?
- what does the [2] do in the variable ?

edit: Ok, done some google on it and this explains it pretty good:

Code:
split(string, array, fieldsep)
    This divides string into pieces separated by fieldsep, and stores the pieces in array.
    The first piece is stored in array[1], the second piece in array[2], and so forth. 
    The string value of the third argument, fieldsep, is a regexp describing where to split string (much as FS can be a regexp describing where to split input records).
    If the fieldsep is omitted, the value of FS is used. split returns the number of elements created. The split function, then,
    splits strings into pieces in a manner similar to the way input lines are split into fields. For example:

    split("auto-da-fe", a, "-")

    splits the string `auto-da-fe' into three fields using `-' as the separator. It sets the contents of the array a as follows:

    a[1] = "auto"
    a[2] = "da"
    a[3] = "fe"

again many thanks!

Still have to do some tweaking (as you said) because some Dirs have spaces in them..
Last edited by Cowardly; 08-11-2011 at 04:51 AM..
 

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textutil_split

textutil::split(3tcl)				    Text and string utilities, macro processing 			     textutil::split(3tcl)

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

NAME

       textutil::split - Procedures to split texts

SYNOPSIS

       package require Tcl  8.2

       package require textutil::split	?0.7?

       ::textutil::split::splitn string ?len?

       ::textutil::split::splitx string ?regexp?

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DESCRIPTION

       The package textutil::split provides commands that split strings by size and arbitrary regular expressions.

       The complete set of procedures is described below.

       ::textutil::split::splitn string ?len?
	      This  command  splits  the  given  string into chunks of len characters and returns a list containing these chunks. The argument len
	      defaults to 1 if none is specified. A negative length is not allowed and will cause the command to  throw  an  error.  Providing	an
	      empty  string as input is allowed, the command will then return an empty list. If the length of the string is not an entire multiple
	      of the chunk length, then the last chunk in the generated list will be shorter than len.

       ::textutil::split::splitx string ?regexp?
	      This command splits the string and return a list. The string is split according to the regular expression regexp instead of a simple
	      list  of	chars.	 Note  that if you parentheses are added into the regexp, the parentheses part of separator will be added into the
	      result list as additional element. If the string is empty the result is the empty list, like for	split.	If  regexp  is	empty  the
	      string is split at every character, like split does.  The regular expression regexp defaults to "[\t \r\n]+".

BUGS, IDEAS, FEEDBACK
       This document, and the package it describes, will undoubtedly contain bugs and other problems.  Please report such in the category textutil
       of the Tcllib SF Trackers [http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=12883].  Please also report any ideas for enhancements you may have for
       either package and/or documentation.

SEE ALSO

       regexp(3tcl), split(3tcl), string(3tcl)

KEYWORDS

       regular expression, split, string

CATEGORY

       Text processing

textutil								0.7						     textutil::split(3tcl)
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