Thanks mr.bean, but what do you do when the keywords in column two contains spaces and filler has multiple entries? Like if there was a "ITEM 1" in the following? Is there a way to go by byte position?
Hi
I have the fixed width flat file having the following data
12345aaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbb
12365sssssssssscccccccccc
12365sssss
12367ddddddddddvvvvvvvvvv
12367 vvvvv
Here the first column is length 5 second is length 10 third is length 10
if the second or third column exceeds... (3 Replies)
The symbols are \t and \t\t (note: not tab)
If the line starts with \t merge them into a single line upto symbol \t\t
\t\t to end and start new line
I able to join in a single line but not ending at \t\t and I completely confused
help would be appreciated:b::D
Input
\ta tab XXXXXXXXXX
\te... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have searched forum trying to find a solution to my problem, but could not find anything or I did not understand the examples....
I should say, I am very inexperienced with text processing.
I have a text file with approx 60k lines in it.
I need to merge lines based on the number... (8 Replies)
Hi Guys,
After windows died on my netbook I installed Lubuntu and discovered Gawk about a month ago. After using Excel for 10+ years I'm amazed how quick and easily Gawk can process data but I'm stuck with a little problem merging data from multiple lines.
I'm an SEO Consultant and provide... (9 Replies)
This is a variation of an earlier post found here:
unixcom/shell-programming-scripting/159821-merge-two-non-consecutive-lines.html
User Bartus11 was kind enough to solve that example.
Previously, I needed help combining two lines that are non-consecutive in a file. Now I need to do the... (7 Replies)
Hello Everyone,
I have two files I created in a format similar to the ones found below (character position is important):
File 1:
21 Cat Y N S Y Y N N
FOUR LEGS
TAIL
WHISKERS
30 Dog N N 1 Y Y N N
FOUR LEGS
TAIL
33 Fish Y N 1 Y Y N N
FINS
43 CAR Y N S Y Y N N
WHEELS
DOORS... (7 Replies)
Hi,
I have a requirement to merge multiple lines based on search pattern. The search criteria is : it will search for CONSTRAINT and when it found CONSTRAINT, it will merge all lines to 1 line till it founds blank line.
For Example:
CREATE TABLE "AMS_DISTRIBUTOR_XREF"
(
"SOURCE"... (5 Replies)
Hi all.
This is the content of the text file used for the e-mail:
TM ICP-EDW BILLING REGISTER USAGE BREAKDOWN_01062014.csv
TM_ICP_EDWH_FICL_13062014.TXT
TM_ICP_EDWH_FICL_16062014.TXT
TM_ICP_EDW_Detailed Payment Journal Report_13062014.txt
TM_ICP_EDW_Detailed Payment Journal... (9 Replies)
Hi,
trying to knock something together to create one line entries based on whether the first word on each line matches a particular value.
eg.
Link,"Name=""Something\something"","Timeout=""1800""",
"Target=""\\thing\thing\thing""","State=""ONLINE""",something,... (0 Replies)
I am trying to merge two lines to one based on some matching condition.
The file is as follows:
Matches filter:
'request ', timestamp, <HTTPFlow
request=<GET:
Matches filter:
'request ', timestamp, <HTTPFlow
request=<GET:
Matches filter:
'request ', timestamp, <HTTPFlow
... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: jamie_123
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LEARN ABOUT OSX
getline
GETLINE(3) BSD Library Functions Manual GETLINE(3)NAME
getdelim, getline -- get a line from a stream
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdio.h>
ssize_t
getdelim(char ** restrict linep, size_t * restrict linecapp, int delimiter, FILE * restrict stream);
ssize_t
getline(char ** restrict linep, size_t * restrict linecapp, FILE * restrict stream);
DESCRIPTION
The getdelim() function reads a line from stream, delimited by the character delimiter. The getline() function is equivalent to getdelim()
with the newline character as the delimiter. The delimiter character is included as part of the line, unless the end of the file is reached.
The caller may provide a pointer to a malloced buffer for the line in *linep, and the capacity of that buffer in *linecapp. These functions
expand the buffer as needed, as if via realloc(). If linep points to a NULL pointer, a new buffer will be allocated. In either case, *linep
and *linecapp will be updated accordingly.
RETURN VALUES
The getdelim() and getline() functions return the number of characters written, excluding the terminating NUL character. The value -1 is
returned if an error occurs, or if end-of-file is reached.
EXAMPLES
The following code fragment reads lines from a file and writes them to standard output. The fwrite() function is used in case the line con-
tains embedded NUL characters.
char *line = NULL;
size_t linecap = 0;
ssize_t linelen;
while ((linelen = getline(&line, &linecap, fp)) > 0)
fwrite(line, linelen, 1, stdout);
ERRORS
These functions may fail if:
[EINVAL] Either linep or linecapp is NULL.
[EOVERFLOW] No delimiter was found in the first SSIZE_MAX characters.
These functions may also fail due to any of the errors specified for fgets() and malloc().
SEE ALSO fgetln(3), fgets(3), malloc(3)STANDARDS
The getdelim() and getline() functions conform to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
These routines first appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.
BUGS
There are no wide character versions of getdelim() or getline().
BSD November 30, 2010 BSD